"To sit and wring my hands in agony may have been the first emotion with which I met this great sorrow. But I pulled myself together and applied my whole thought to the working out of the great duty that had fallen to my lot."
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Stern is describing her own reaction to the discovery that her firstborn son, Sylvan G. Stern, was born deaf.
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Rose Goldsmith Stern
Rose Goldsmith Stern (October 19, 1866 – January 24, 1931) was an American clubwoman. She was a chair of the National Council of Jewish Women and an advocate for deaf education and for supports for deaf veterans of World War I.
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