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The dance may well act our the kind of acceptance of death as an inherent part of the life cycle that emerges from the Homeric "Hymn to Demeter," wherein the goddess's unconsolable grief at the loss of Persephone to Hades yields to acceptance of her daughter's cyclical existence above and below the earth. While most moms and dads can hush their babies with a feeding or a diaper change, one out of every five infants in the United States remains unconsolable, suffering bouts of "excessive" crying due to a baffling disorder called colic. |
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