“Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.”

— Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

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American children's writer and illustrator 1932–2016

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