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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books _ where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.
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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books _ where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.

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