| He will be her benefactor and responsible for her, her college fees, although he chooses to remain unknown to her | Going into it, my expectations weren't particularly high |
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| When the world should have widened it cut off | Do I rate them as I enjoy them now, or as I would have enjoyed them had I read it as a young adult? it is , though devoid of illustrations Published in 1912, it is a series of letters from the fictional Jerusha Judy Abbott to the mysterious benefactor who plucks her from an orphanage and pays for her college |
Perhaps influenced by the knowledge that this is my mum's favourite childhood book and perhaps influenced by this sentimental time of year.
2| The book title comes from his tall frame and long limbs which, on the one occasion at the beginning of the book where she caught a passing glimpse of his back, made his shadow resemble a daddy-long-legs | Lippett The too-strict orphanage manager where Judy grew up |
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| Daddy Long Legs ends too soon and footnotes the growing up past the newness | I had wanted to read DLL ever since I read I had a nice review all written out, then like a dunce I clicked the little "x" in the corner!! Sometimes people tell themselves things |
If he was paying for her to attend med school she'd dump him as soon as she graduated.
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