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Feelings are like wings. They can take you soaring high up in the sky, and make you feel like you can do anything, or, they can be a monstrous burden that you must lug around on your back. But there's one emotion that surpassed all the others in every single way. And that emotion is hope. Hope is everywhere. It may be right in the open, bringing joy to all those around it, or, it may just be tucked into the corners of your heart. But the biggest source of it is radiating from the pages of the novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, written by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer.
It is the spectacular story of a post-war stricken land, but is later restored as the characters use their hope as a rope to pull them out of


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