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"Once upon a time she was a little girl named Alice, who lived in a city by the sea. From the front stoop she could see the wharves and the bristling masts of tall ships. Many years ago her grandfather had come to America on a large sailing ship.

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In the evening Alice sat on her grandfather's knee and listened to his stories of faraway places. When he had finished, Alice would say, 'When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too wil live beside the sea.'

'That is all very well, little Alice,' said her grandfather, 'but there is a third thing you must do.'

'What is that?' asked Alice.

'You must do something to make the world more beautiful,' said her grandfather

'All right,' said Alice. But she did not know what that could be.

Then my Great-aunt Alice set out to do the three things she had told her grandfather she was going to do . . ." - "Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney

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