It began when I was a very young boy and my mother went into the hospital for an operation. During that time, my aunt and uncle came over to take care of me, but their presence did not relieve what I remember now as a profound sense of isolation and abandonment. My mood darkened, as my mother told me later, and remained in that darkness during all the time of her absence. During all of that extended period, according to my aunt and uncle, whose description was later relayed to my mother, I had cried incessantly and inconsolably, gripped by what could probably be described as a childhood
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