... plague him throughout his life. As his father was usually gone on business and his mother too suffered from an illness in the lungs which rendered her incapable to care for her sickly child, the task to look after Stevenson was given to Alison Cunningham, or otherwise known as 'Cummy' who was a fundamentalist Christian with whom Stevenson would develop his closest relationship. Stevenson spent a great deal of his early life in his bedroom where Cummy would labour to teach him the difference between the pursuit of a life of good and that of a life of evil. While she would explain the consequences bearing upon the decision to either pursue a life of good which would bring everlasting happiness and heaven or the pursuit of a life of evil which would inevitably lead to the everlasting torments of hell, Cummy made sure Stevenson would be spared no details of ...

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