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There is nothing stronger than the human urge to know why.
A child might ask a parent why the sky is blue and the grass green. A jilted spouse might wonder why the relationship they held dear has crumbled in divorce. A parent who loses a child to cancer may scream out to God, why take my baby?
Most of those questions can be answered one way or another.
Depending on the child’s age, a parent may simply tell their offspring that blue and green are Mother Nature’s favourite colours, or for older kids get into the concepts of light refraction and chlorophyll in plants.
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