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Three times I’ve read this book. And each time through I’ve gotten something different from the story. It was required reading in school, when I was but 13 yrs. old, too young to appreciate the illicit passion that drives the plot, yet old enough to sense a foreboding of the what life contains for a single mother. And indeed by the time I read this for the second time, in my early 30s, I was a single mom & only parent. It was far easier to identify with the main character Hester Prynne and to ad
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It was okay. Hawthorne writes a little pretentiously for my taste
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