摘 要: | I didn’t cry when I learned l wasthe parent of a mentally handicappedchild.I iust sat still and didn’t sayanything while my husband and Iwere informed that two-year-oldKristi was——as we suspected——retarded. “Go ahead and cry,”the doctoradvised kindly.”Helps preventserious emotional difficulties.”Serious difficulties notwithstanding,I couldn’t cry then norduring the months that followed.
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