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It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and...more

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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

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...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

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Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

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I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!