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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Chapters 43-48: Brimming With Life
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Chapters 43-48: Brimming With Life

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May 28, 2023
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Katie, Francie, and Neeley in the 1945 film adaptation.

Hi there, readers! 

I loved this week’s chapters. Though Francie is thrown into adulthood on a full-time basis — there isn’t even school anymore — she starts to figure out what it is that makes life fulfilling and exciting. Towards the end of the reading, in fact, we came to my favorite passage in t…

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