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Specifically thinking about The Little Match Girl and To Build a Fire

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[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Where the red fern grows, tuck everlasting, z for Zachariah; a ton of suffering and death in so many lit books but don’t say it too loudly or they’ll ban them too for teaching folks how to deal with loss and painful endings.