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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
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 Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 9:30:21 PM
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Anyone read it? I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to this one...but it was wonderful! It's not a story of farm life...but does tell of how a family made due on so very little. I highly recommend it.
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
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Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 05:04:01 AM
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Yes, I read it many years ago. I don't remember much about it, except that it was about the longings of a young girl in the thirties or forties, and that it was very poignant and sweet.
Maybe I'll have to get it back down and read it again. Thanks for reminding me about it.
"What another would do as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself, and there, make yourself indispensable." ---Andre Gide |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 06:29:39 AM
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YES I also read it a while back, it was a nice story, its also a movie, so if you see the movie come up try and catch it, or rent it.
NANCY JO |
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 4:44:35 PM
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I read it as a "tween" and loved it. Some very adult information for me at the time! I've never seen the movie...
Sharon
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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happymama58
True Blue Farmgirl
1210 Posts
Patti
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 5:46:45 PM
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I've read it several times and recommend it to my students. Those who read it usually like it.
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
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Posted - Feb 26 2006 : 4:52:00 PM
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I read it in junior high and loved it! It was very inspiring. You have to love the girl's mom for being so resiliant and trying to make surviving seem like a game. What courage!
When we were young, there were moments of such perfectly crystallized happiness that we stood stock still and silently promised ourselves that we would remember them always. And we did. --Holly J. Burkhalter , "Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book"
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