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all of the infants died before uttering a single word. The emperor had stumbled upon something remarkable: that “children could not live without clap-pings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.”

Source: A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon | link

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