“With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.”

—  Wilson Rawls, book Where the Red Fern Grows

Source: Where the Red Fern Grows

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American children's writer 1913–1984

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