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I love Hans Christian Andersen! I liked The Little Match Girl, but I must say that my favorite is The Mermaid. In my book of his stories, that is the first one and I absolutely loved it when I read it. It was so familiar too, so I think I must have read it somewhere before I got that book, but I don't remember where. I felt the same way with The Little Match Girl. But I love the descriptions in The Mermaid, everything about it is just so beautiful. I could just read it over and over. (Honorable Mention also to The Nightingale and The Bottle Neck).
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it's a long long road, it's a big big world
we are wise wise women, we are giggling girls
we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased
both carry a switchblade in our sleeves
- Ani DiFranco, from "If He Tries Anything"
also in "Somplace To Be Flying" by Charles de Lint
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