THE SHARING OF SUFFERING
Beverly Sills, operatic great, tells of her two severely handicapped children in her pictorial autobiography, Bubbles. Her own natural daughter is deaf and her step-daughter is also severely handicapped. She writes: I was now only thirty-four, but a very mature thirty-four. In a strange way my children had brought me an inner peace. The first question I had when I learned of their tragedies was a self-pitying “Why me?” Then gradually it changed to a much more important “Why them?” Despite their handicaps they were showing enormous strength in continuing to live as normal and constructive lives as possible. How could Peter and I show any less strength? Afer all that had happened, I felt we could survive anything.
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