
“Henry Smith‘s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.”
#FirstLineFriday on Saturday
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“Henry Smith‘s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.”
#FirstLineFriday on Saturday
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“That Veronica and I were given keys and told to come early on a frozen Saturday in April to open the school for the Our Town auditions was proof of our dull reliability.”
#FirstLineFriday - starting my first #ALSpine26 book off the list from @willaful

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
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“Beat you to the turn!”
#firstlinefriday on Monday
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“It was a perfect day for a family outing—until a piercing scream split the air.”
#firstlinefriday

"She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window."
#FirstLineFriday
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"A young man with unruly black hair stood upon the summit of Calton Hill in the wee hours of a Thursday in early February."
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#10BeforeTheEnd
I bought this book years ago at the Edinburgh airport. It's past time to get it off the TBR shelf!

"Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human."
#FirstLineFriday

I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral.
#firstlinefriday
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