Ruta Sepetys

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Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both

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Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars

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How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me

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I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness

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Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,