In The Good Earth and The Mother, Buck provides compelling visions of old age. All rights reserved. "Why must we hide it?" Pearl S. Buck's Daughter, Carol, Shines a Light on Children With Special Needs On March 4, 1920, Pearl Buck gave birth to her only biological child, Carol. He is now the family care pastor at First Baptist Church of Perkasie. "Pearl S. Buck and the Waning of the Missionary Impulse", This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 21:21. The historical societys initial effort, manned by volunteers, began a few years ago when there was only a tin marker on Carols grave. Conn's biography offers rich documentation for the breadth of her social concerns and the impressiveness of her charitable accomplishments, especially regard- ing the treatment of women at home and abroad. The author of more than 70 books, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. In nearly five decades of work, Welcome House has placed over five thousand children. Since her father Absalom insisted, as he had in 1900 in the face of the Boxers, the family decided to stay in Nanjing until the battle reached the city. Pearl Buck's papers and literary manuscripts are currently housed at Pearl S. Buck International[45] and the West Virginia & Regional History Center.[46]. Hulton Archive/Getty Images I must tell you, so much of it was over my head. I hope Miss Buck realizes that in marking that childs grave, Swindal said, that beloved child that caused her mother to have this eternal spring of beautiful words, its our way of saying, Thank you, Miss Buck. Yellow for remembrance. She taught English literature at this private, church-run university,[13] and also at Ginling College and at the National Central University. Several historic sites work to preserve and display artifacts from Pearl's profoundly multicultural life: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. . In 1950 . Pearl Sydenstricker was born into a family of ghosts. [34], Pearl S. Buck died of lung cancer on March 6, 1973, in Danby, Vermont. The Walshes soon moved to Green Hills Farm because Buck, who became famous. Deborah M. Marko covers breaking news, public safety, and education for The Daily Journal,Courier-Post and Burlington County Times. When establishing Opportunity House, Buck said, "The purpose is to publicize and eliminate injustices and prejudices suffered by children, who, because of their birth, are not permitted to enjoy the educational, social, economic and civil privileges normally accorded to children. In 1921, Pearl S. Buck gave birth to a daughter, Carol, who became severely retarded and was eventually institutionalized at the Vineland Training School in New Jersey. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892 to Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker and Absalom Sydenstricker, Southern Presbyterian missionaries who returned to China shortly after their daughter's birth. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline (Stulting) and Absalom Sydenstricker, Buck and her southern Presbyterian missionaries parents went to Zhejiang, China in 1895. She said she couldnt have written the book without the help of Doug, who typed it up and made grammatical changes while keeping the writing in her own voice. Buck, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, spent many years in China where the people, culture and social change she witnessed inspired her writing. In 1929, they left the nine-year-old girl at a private facility in New Jersey. The local warlords who ruled China largely unchecked by a weak central government were always eager to extend or consolidate territory. She married an agricultural economist missionary, John Lossing Buck, on May 13,[12] 1917, and they moved to Suzhou, Anhui Province, a small town on the Huai River (not to be confused with the better-known Suzhou in Jiangsu Province). (1956) and 'Letter from Peking' (1957). Communist party cadre, army officers and rich people visit her restaurant. Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 - December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor and director. Pearl joined in as soon as the party got going with people killing cocks, burning paper money, and gossiping about foreigners making malaria pills out of babies' eyes. She was concerned that Carol was not developing normally, but received little or no support from her husband or doctors. Her own ambition, she continued, had not been trained toward "the beauty of letters or the grace of art." Hilary Spurling has also written biographies of Henri Matisse and Ivy Compton-Burnett. Instead, the grave marker is inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker.[36]. Pearl Buck financially contributed tothe Training School at Vineland, served on its board of trustees, and highlighted the facilitys reputation and research during her speaking engagementsand television appearances. After the war, her father returned to the United States and her mother raised her. Life was difficult as an Amerasian child of a Korean woman and an American soldier who served in the Korean conflict, she said. In 1921, Buck's mother died of a tropical disease, sprue, and shortly afterward her father moved in. The way Miss Buck put words together. Pearl S. Buck. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. She was the fifth of seven children and, when she looked back afterward at her beginnings, she remembered a crowd of brothers and sisters at home, tagging after their mother, listening to her sing, and begging her to tell stories. She wrote on diverse subjects, including women's rights, Asian cultures, immigration, adoption, missionary work, war, the atomic bomb (Command the Morning), and violence. It was the summer after the fourth grade when he picked up his older sisters eighth-grade literature book and, lo and behold, discovered Pearl S. Buck, winner of both the Nobel and Pulitzer prize and a Bucks County resident. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! After her birth, Pearl finds that she will never be able to have more biological children. Carol Buck, diagnosed with Phenylketonuria, resided at the Training School at Vineland/Elwynuntil she died in 1992, at age 72. [23], In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Buck co-founded Welcome House, Inc.,[24] the first international, interracial adoption agency, along with James A. Michener, Oscar Hammerstein II and his second wife Dorothy Hammerstein. Pearl was the daughter of American missionaries and spent much of her early life in China, which is where she set the majority of her novels and . Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. Pearl Buck was a Nobel Prize winner author of the novel The Good Earth. Pearl Buck Center annually supports the efforts of about 700 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Eugene-Springfield area. Today the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic house museum and cultural center. However, the author does a more complete job of desribing the atmosphere . Buck's father, Absalom, was often away, traveling over his mission field (an area as big as Texas), preaching blood-and-thunder sermons to often hostile Chinese passersby. She was80. The man from Alabama knew that Carol Buck was buried there, daughter of celebrated author Pearl S. Buck, whose beautiful words had inspired him and brought him joy since he was a . The novel brings out the hypocrisy of the Chinese society. What they saw was America, a strange, dreamlike, alien homeland where they had never set foot. Unknown title (1902) first published story, pen name "Novice", "The Revolutionist" (1928) later published as "Wang Lung" (1933), "The Lesson" (1933) later published as "No Other Gods" (1936; original title used in short story collections), "The River" (1933) later published as "The Good River" (1939), "The Beautiful Ladies" (1934) later published as "Mr. Binney's Afternoon" (1935), "Vignette of Love" (1935) later published as "Next Saturday and Forever" (1977), "What the Heart Must" (1937) later published as "Someone to Remember" (1947), "The Woman Who Was Changed" (1937) serialized in, "For a Thing Done" (1939) originally titled "While You Are Here", "Iron" (1940) later published as "A Man's Foes" (1940), "There Was No Peace" (1940) later published as "Guerrilla Mother" (1941), "More Than a Woman" (1941) originally titled "Deny It if You Can", "Our Daily Bread" (1941) originally titled "A Man's Daily Bread, 13", serialized in, "John-John Chinaman" (1942) original title "John Chinaman", "Mrs. Barclay's Christmas Present" (1942) later published as "Gift of Laughter" (1943), "Journey for Life" (1944) originally titled "Spark of Life", "A Time to Love" (1945) later published under its original title "The Courtyards of Peace" (1969), "Big Tooth Yang" (1946) later published as "The Tax Collector" (1947), "The Conqueror's Girl" (1946) later published as "Home Girl" (1947), "Incident at Wang's Corner" (1947) later published as "A Few People" (1947), "Love and the Morning Calm" serialized in, "The Couple Who Lived on the Moon" (1953) later published as "The Engagement" (1961), "A Husband for Lili" (1953) later published as "The Good Deed (1969), "Christmas Day in the Morning" (1955) later published as "The Gift That Lasts a Lifetime", "Leading Lady" (1958) alternately titled "Open the Door, Lady", "A Grandmother's Christmas" (1962) later published as "This Day to Treasure" (1972), ""Never Trust the Moonlight" (1962) later published as "The Green Sari" (1962), "All the Days of Love and Courage" 1969) later published as "The Christmas Child" (1972), "Two in Love" (1970) later published as "The Strawberry Vase" (1976), "In Loving Memory" (1972) later published as "Mrs. Stoner and the Sea" (1976), "Mrs. Barton Declines" (1973) later published as "Mrs. Barton's Decline" and "Mrs. Barton's Resurrection" (1976), "Darling Let Me Stay" (1975) excerpt from "Once upon a Christmas" (1971), "Morning in the Park" (1976; written 1948), "The Woman in the Waves" (1976; written 1953), "A Pleasant Evening" (1979; written 1948), "Mother and Daughter" (1938, unsold; alternate title "My Beloved"), "Lesson in Biology" / "Useless Wife" (unsold), "Three Nights with Love" (submitted, unsold) original title "More Than a Woman", "Escape Me Never" alternate title of "For a Thing Done", "Johnny Jack and His Beginnings" (New York: John Day, 1954), Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award (now Bank Street Children's Book Committee's, Pearl S. Buck House in Nanjing University, China, The Zhenjiang Pearl S. Buck Research Association and former residence in Zhenjiang, China, The Pearl S. Buck Memorial Hall, Bucheon City, South Korea. "[40] These works aroused considerable popular sympathy for China, and helped foment a more critical view of Japan and its aggression. Spurling's book is called Pearl Buck in China, and after reading it, I've been motivated to dust off my junior high copy of The Good Earth and move it to the top of my "must read again someday" pile. Call 856-563-5256 or email dmarko@gannettnj.com. In her lifetime, care options for people with intellectual disabilities in this country were very different than now. When: 11 a.m. Saturday, April 9. When Pearl was five months old, the family arrived in China, living first in Huai'an and then in 1896 moving to Zhenjiang (then often known as Chingkiang in the Chinese postal romanization system), near the major city of Nanking. Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon . Now, Henning has written about it in a new memoir, "A Rose in a Ditch." Swindal, 69, never crossed paths with Pearl Buck, who died March 6, 1973. The couple had adopted a second daughter in 1924, at an orphanage in upstate New York, who grew up to be lively and wonderful company, but it appears that the struggles over the best way to handle Carol's problems had for years kept Pearl and her husband prey to constant tension and recriminations. To read her novels is to gain not merely knowledge of China but wisdom about life. "I just hope that little Carol can realize that somebody cares, that all of us gathered there are mindful of her mark upon the world.". She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Observant and clever, yet always adherent to household and societal duties . "Exile's Daughter" was written in 1944, when Pearl Buck was about 50; she lived almost another 40 years, so it is incomplete as a life. (Bob Keeler/The News-Herald via AP), Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Its almost like it was set in motion that night.. The couple had adopted a second daughter in 1924, at an orphanage in upstate New York, who grew up to be lively and wonderful company, but it appears that the struggles over the best way to handle Carol's problems had for years kept Pearl and her husband prey to constant tension and recriminations. She runs an expensive restaurant in Shanghai. As a small child lying awake in bed at night, Pearl grew up listening to the cries of women on the street outside calling back the spirits of their dead or dying babies. The old father in The Good Earth cackles with life, drawing strength from his grandchildren-bedfellows. Im a math teacher, but I had a story to tell and that had to be told, she said. ("That huge empire is one mighty cemetery," Mark Twain wrote of China, "ridged and wrinkled from its center to its circumference with graves.") Spurling's biography focuses almost exclusively on Buck's Chinese childhood, as the daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, and young adulthood, as the unhappy wife of an agricultural reformer based in an outlying area of Shanghai. Can you believe that?. A portrait of Pearl S. Buck taken during the 1920s, during the time she lived in Nanking. In China, the task of the novelist differed from the Western artist: "To farmers he must talk of their land, and to old men he must speak of peace, and to old women he must tell of their children, and to young men and women he must speak of each other." In 1966,. They understood, but could not believe they had." Edgar, the oldest, ten years of age when Pearl was born, stayed long enough to teach her to walk, but a year or two later he was gone too (sent back to be educated in the United States, he would be a young man of twenty before his sister saw him again). The man from Alabama knew that Carol Buck was buried there, daughter of celebrated author Pearl S. Buck, whose beautiful words had inspired him and brought him joy since he was a boy. Two other girls who lived there when she arrived got married and left the house in the first year she was there, she said. Searching for long-term care for Carol, Pearl Buck enrolled her daughter at Training School at Vineland, which was the third oldest facility in the nation for the education of the developmentally disabled. Ever since her 1931 blockbuster The Good Earth earned her a Pulitzer Prize and, eventually, the first Nobel Prize for Literature ever awarded to an American woman, Pearl S. Buck's reputation has made a strange, slow migration. Pearl S. Buck was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Henning said she was the last of the children brought to live with Buck at her home. Then the150-acre property, that includes the cemetery, was recently sold toPrime Rock of Wayne, Pa., whoagreed to honor the agreement. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. In 1934, Buck left China, believing she would return,[17] while her husband remained. This is the region she describes in her books The Good Earth and Sons. The first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Buck was also "the first person to make China accessible to the West." . She told her American audience that she welcomed Chinese to share her Christian faith, but argued that China did not need an institutional church dominated by missionaries who were too often ignorant of China and arrogant in their attempts to control it. [41], In 1973, Buck was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, California residents do not sell my data request. ", When phone rang at the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, Patricia Martinelli answered. Swindal is driving up to deliver it. She was raised by a Chinese amah who told her popular tales and myths, and she could speak and . During delivery, a uterine tumor had been detected in Pearl Buck , as a result of which she could no longer have children. Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize-winning author. "[32] Before her death, Buck signed over her foreign royalties and her personal possessions to Creativity Inc., a foundation controlled by Harris, leaving her children a relatively small percentage of her estate. 2023 www.thedailyjournal.com. Buck's former residence at Nanjing University is now the Sai Zhenzhu Memorial House along the West Wall of the university's north campus. Every Chinese family had its own quarrelsome, mischievous ghosts who could be appealed to, appeased, or comforted with paper people, houses, and toys. Through riots, abusive husbands, fame, jealousy and the Cultural Revolution,. Originally named Comfort,[4] Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, to Caroline Maude (Stulting) (18571921) and Absalom Sydenstricker. Where other little girls constructed mud pies, Pearl made miniature grave mounds, patting down the sides and decorating them with flowers or pebbles. A few years later, Pearl was enrolled in Miss Jewell's School there and was dismayed at the racist attitudes of the other students, few of whom could speak any Chinese. Pearl made the most of the effect she produced, and of the endless questions -- about her clothes, her coloring, her parents, the way they lived and the food they ate -- that followed as soon as the mourners got over their shock. Almost nothing seems to be by chance, he said. The big shift was set in motion almost 15 years ago, when literary scholar Peter Conn lifted Buck out of mid-cult obscurity in his monumental biography called, simply, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. They were so tiny she knew they belonged to dead babies, nearly always girls suffocated or strangled at birth and left out for dogs to devour. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster Inc., NY. [21], In her speech to the Academy, she took as her topic "The Chinese Novel." Her three daughters are living in . Her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was a Presbyterian missionary stationed in the small town of Chinkiang, outside Nanking. Writer and social activist who was an outspoken wartime advocate for Japanese Americans. Spurling claims that Buck had a "magic power -- possessed by all truly phenomenal best-selling authors -- to tap directly into currents of memory and dream secreted deep within the popular imagination.". She studied hard, including going into the bathroom after 10 p.m. lights out and turning the light on there to study while sitting on the floor, she said. The American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Pearl S. Buck, best known as the author of The Good Earth, also helped to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people with intellectual disabilities.It was her experiences with her own daughter that led Buck down a path that helped shape the future for people with intellectual disabilities. He already knew his literary heroines daughter was buried at a former school in New Jersey. She wanted to fulfill the ambitions denied to her mother, but she also needed money to support herself if she left her marriage, which had become increasingly lonely, and since the mission board could not provide it, she also needed money for Carol's specialized care. "Women and international relations: Pearl S. Buck's critique of the Cold War. [31], In the mid-1960s, Buck increasingly came under the influence of Theodore Harris, a former dance instructor, who became her confidant, co-author, and financial advisor. It does an excellent job of describing her early life in China: the living conditions, her mother's discomfort with living there, etc. " -- I had the opportunity to listen to Julie Henning in a spiritual testominy today. "I thought maybe if I help get her beloved daughters grave marked, itis a small way of me saying, 'Oh, thank you Miss Buck.' Early years Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on June 26, 1892. Yearning to enjoy the land again, Wang Lung moves with his elder daughter, Pear Blossom, and several servants back to the farmhouse. Her father, convinced that no Chinese could wish him harm, stayed behind as the rest of the family went to Shanghai for safety. Swindal said he was at a dinner party in New York City about two years ago when he met a couple from Cherry Hill. Thursday, at Clinton Chapel AMEZ Church 1015 Church Street. . The remains of about 170 of the facilitys residents, and a few of its employees, are buried here. The work made her a top student, which caught the attention of the director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation who notified Buck, Henning said. Information from: The Reporter, http://www.thereporteronline.com, This Nov. 20, 2019 photo shows Doug and Julie Henning at Pearl S. Buck Institute in Hilltown, Pa. Julie Henning has told her life story at churches, schools, civic groups and conferences, sharing about coming from poverty in her native Korea to Bucks County and being raised as Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author Pearl S. Buck's daughter. ("It doesn't look human, this hair."). In 1914, Buck returned to China. The siblings who surrounded Pearl in these early memories were dreamlike as well. She ultimately adopted several children and fostered others. We continue Pearl S. Bucks legacy of bridging cultures and changing lives through intercultural education, humanitarian aid, and sharing the Pearl S. Buck House, a National Historic Landmark, PSBIs website says. My only connection that I have is I discovered her workthe summer after I had finished the fourth grade, he said. It was not a restrictive program;residents didnt live in dorms but in cottages throughout the grounds. The same could be said of his path to Carol Bucks grave. [3] After returning to the United States in 1935, she married the publisher Richard J. Walsh and continued writing prolifically. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). She has given me a lifetime of fabulous literature.. Phenylketonuria is a rare inherited disorder, now treatable, that causes protein to build up in the body, potentially damaging the brain. It bothered me, I just thought how in the world can that grave be unmarked? he said, and set about putting it right. Theodore F. Harris (in consultation with Pearl S. Buck), Hunt, Michael H. "Pearl Buck-Popular Expert on China, 1931-1949. She used to take me to lots of places, Henning said of Buck. She was baffled by a newly arrived American, one of her parents' visitors, who complained that the Sydenstrickers lived in a graveyard. The tragedies and dislocations that Buck suffered in the 1920s reached a climax in March 1927, during the "Nanking Incident". While in the United States, she earned a Masters in Arts degree from Cornell University in 1926. . After her graduation she returned to China and lived there until 1934 with the exception of a year spent at Cornell University, where she took an M.A. Luna says the public's fascination with Buck began to slip following her death in 1973. From 1920 to 1933, the Bucks made their home in Nanjing, on the campus of the University of Nanking, where they both had teaching positions. She soon depended on him for all her daily routines, and placed him in control of Welcome House and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation. In spite of her advancing age, she never showed any signs of slowing down. and her answer was a barely qualified "no". Followon Twitter: @dmarko_dj Instagram: deb.marko.dj Help support local journalism with a subscription. Recently the marker of perhaps the facilitys most well-known resident, Carol Buck, the daughter of author and humanitarian Pearl S. Buck, vanished leaving her grave unmarked. He was well known for a number of TV roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling Jr. in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, as Jesse Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985, as Mad Jack in the NBC television series The Life and . Many contemporary reviewers were positive and praised her "beautiful prose", even though her "style is apt to degenerate into over-repetition and confusion". Buck's life in China as an American citizen fueled her literary and personal commitment to improve relations between Americans and Asians. Im absolutely over the moon that we have been able to save this small part of our local history, she said. To Swindal, the gravestone is a way of thanking both mother and daughter. taught English literature in Chinese universities. she asked her Chinese nurse, who explained that black was the only normal color for hair and eyes. The book is called "Pearl in China" and tells a story of a life-long friendship between Buck and a peasant girl. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. They are, from left, Cheico, 16; Johanna, 15; Henriette, 18; and Theresa, 17. Many of her life experiences and political views are described in her novels, short stories, fiction, children's stories, and the biographies of her parents entitled Fighting Angel (on Absalom) and The Exile (on Carrie). hide caption. Pearl escaped through the back gate to run free on the grasslands thickly dotted with tall pointed graves behind the house. To Martinellis relief and delight, she said the developer assured her they intend to preserve the cemetery as a historic site. I resolved that my child, whose natural gifts were obviously unusual, even though they were never to find expression, was not to be wasted, wrote Buck. Earlier this year, Bucks tin marker went missing just as plans moved forward to place a stone at the cemetery. She ultimately adopted several children and fostered others. There are several painted portraits of Pearl S. Buck in the Bucks County fieldstone farmhouse where she lived for 40 years. As the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries based in China, Buck used her background growing up in China to write The Good Earth.Now, literary tourists can enjoy visiting and exploring her legacy at her house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She is survived by her mother, Clydie Pearl Buck; daughter, Tyechia Buck, both of New Bern; brother, Mitchell Buck; sisters, Delvra Buck, Theresa Renee Buck, Stephanie Buck, Shonya . Born into a family of missionaries on June 26, 1892, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck spent her first few months in Hillsborough, West Virginia. Pearl S. Buck, full name Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, was an American writer best known for her novels and poems, many of which . In her later years, though her house was only 30 miles from the small village, Pearl discovered Danby for the first time and fell in love. Buck traveled once more to the United States in 1929 to find long-term care for Carol, and while there, Richard J. Walsh, editor at John Day publishers in New York, accepted her novel East Wind: West Wind. Severed heads were still stuck up on the gates of walled towns like Zhenjiang, where the Sydenstrickers lived. Once an old woman shrieked aloud, convinced she was about to die now that she could understand the language of foreign devils. The Pearl Buck family in China Their first daughter was born in 1921, and she fell victim to an illness, after which she was left with severe mental retardation. After earning degrees from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Cornell University, she published several award-winning novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winner The Good Earth. [1] She was the first American woman to win that prize. I could tell right from the start how sincere he was about putting something there.. He didnt have to. After a social worker from the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (now Pearl S. Buck International) found her, she said, she went to live in a Pearl B. Buck Opportunity Center and was able to continue her schooling. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. Even . The Exile S Daughter A Biography Of Pearl S. Buck: Cornelia, Cornelia, Spencer, Spencer: 9781296502171: Amazon.com: Books Books History Buy new: $25.95 FREE delivery Select delivery location Temporarily out of stock. Its a long way from Vineland to Birmingham, but an unmarked grave hidden behind a thicket of ancient South Jersey pines was something David Swindal couldnt put out of his mind. Newborn babies in developed countries are now screened for PKU and with monitoring and a special diet can have normal mental. 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