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though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. And overbold I may be accounted, for though I have been a lover of fairy-stories since I learned to read, and have at times thought about them, I have not studied them professionally. I have been hardly more than a wandering explorer (or trespasser) in the land, full of wonder but not of information. (Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories” 3) 4…

A tender rosebud on the verge of blooming, basking in the light of new loves and life promises was snipped and crushed in a dark moment of despair. Surely those are her sweet petals being carried away gently and lovingly by a winged messenger of the kingdom. Goodbye Robertta, you were and always will be loved. This book is dedicated to my Goddaughter, the late Robertta O’Neal Washington, August 4, 1984, to September 21, 2007. Copyright © 2008 by Corwin Press All rights reserved. When forms

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