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Kate D.'s avatar

This may be my favorite piece I've ever read on Substack.

I came to Anne, the books and miniseries-es (the first two, not the third which shall not be named), early in life. I love Anne and I tried consciously to shape my personality to be as much like her as possible. (Though really I often may be more of a Mrs. Rachel Lynde!)

I hope that I can grow up to be as patient and kind of a mother as Anne! (I have two children, but your first two are practice kids, right? 😅)

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I came to Anne later in life, as an adult and a mother of a red-head daughter. I find I identify more with Anne than with Jo March, although I’m not Canadian nor an orphan. (I also learned what “a member of the race of Joseph” meant, which someone had told me I was way back in college.) I love both the movie and the book series!

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