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Wrap up: The Child from the Sea

Goudge Read-Along, August 2023

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Aug 31, 2023
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{Life, truly lived, is not an exercise in safety and no one is secure in a storm at sea.

When a few days later Charles came to see her she had never loved him so much. Each of them was bound to fail the other again and again and because they were one must bear the burden of the other's failures as well as their own.

Scapegoats. We all are, she thought in…

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