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    I Remember My Eighth Birthday
    I Remember My Eighth Birthday
    I Remember My Eighth Birthday
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    I Remember My Eighth Birthday

    By Philip M. Carr-Harris

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    I Remember My Eighth Birthday is the story of an eight-year-old child-whose gender is not revealed so all young readers might see themselves in this-who wakes to find a red ruksak at the foot of the bed in which is a handwritten note that reads: Gather objects from your world, Common and uncommon things,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalmetto Publishing
    Release dateAug 3, 2022
    ISBN9798885909785
    I Remember My Eighth Birthday
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    Philip M. Carr-Harris

    Philip M. Carr-Harris is an emerging writer, retired high school teacher and Episcopal minister, and father and grandfather who lives in Norfolk, Connecticut, in an 1839 schoolhouse on the side of Haystack Mountain.

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