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Introducing & Remembering the Anne-girl

At the end of last year, a friend announced she was going to spend 2017 (yes, this year) re-reading her collection of books by LM Montgomery.  As I am a huge fan of that author too, I decided I would do it as well.  Needless to say, she went through with her decision & I did not.  I started to but got busy & distracted & just never got back into it.  Until this summer when I started it up again & read it to McKenna, who had started it as well but never went beyond Gilbert calling Anne 'carrots'.  It took us all summer because we would forget or get busy but we finally finished it on Thursday evening of this week.  3-5 chapters every time we sat down together.  I read while she worked on her artwork or sewing.  She's not comfortable reading out loud, my shy quiet girl. I must admit it has been years since I sat & read the books.  Before I got busy with raising my family I read them every fall.  I have a nice LM Montgomery collection, not just the An