We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn")
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It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.
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