Endurance

Endurance usually relates stamina and  the ability to fight through fatigue.  This excerpt uses endurance to illustrate the woman's lack of endurance due to the fact that she gave up looking for her child and realize that in reality, her child is lost.  With the thoughts of wondering if her child is sick or dead, the amount of endurance or patience needed to find her child was too much for her causing her to be depressed and miserable.
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