Thus, in his mother's mind, David always stayed as a young boy who would not grow up. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), a Scottish, wrote this book in 1902 for an older brother, David (his mother's favorite) who died in an ice-skating accident the day before he turned 14. Barrie, a middle-child and then only 6 years old, tried to assume David's place in his mother's heart by wearing the latter's clothes and speaking and sounding l A story of a dead child and a mother who is missing him. A story of a dead child and a mother who is missing him.
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