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Ducking beneath the low-hanging limbs of giant trees, she churned slowly through thicket for more than a hundred yards, as easy turtles slid from water-logs. A floating mat of duckweed colored the water as green as the leafy ceiling, creating an emerald tunnel. Finally, the trees parted, and she glided into a place of wide sky and reaching grasses, and the sounds of cawing birds. The view a chick gets, she reckoned, when it finally breaks its shell.
Kya tooled along, a tiny speck of a girl in a
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― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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We ate all our meals in the kitchen nook, with its banquette seating around a small table. We liked it because it nestled against a window and gave us an eastward view of Kah Tai Lagoon, down the hill from our house. We both loved watching the light of different seasons play across the still water, gleaming in summer, shimmering in autumn, as gray and dull as old pewter in wintertime.
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― The Witch's Kind
― The Witch's Kind
