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1 " And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, " Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before." " Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, " for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered." " Alas!" cried his Soul, " I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine. "
2 " As the language areas of the left hemisphere enter their sensitive period during the middle of the second year of life, grammatical language in the left integrates with the interpersonal and prosodic elements of communication already well developed in the right. As the cortical language centers mature, words are joined together to make sentences and can be used to express increasingly complex ideas flavored with emotion. As the frontal cortex continues to expand and connect with more neural networks, memory improves and a sense of time slowly emerges and autobiographical memory begins to connect the self with places and events, within and across time. The emerging narratives begin to organize the nascent sense of self and become the bedrock of our sense of self in interpersonal and physical space "
