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As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left dead and buried, or at least buried. We can bury the past, but it never really dies. The experience of that winter has grown on my soul like ivy climbing the outside of a home, growing until it begins to tear and tug at the brick and mortar.

I pray I can still get the story right. My memory, like my eyesight, has waned with age. Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older. This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days. Things that never should have been hidden. And things that should have.

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This book made me cry.. It is amazing how one person can make such a difference in someone else's life. This is a wonderful book.

DARK & DEPRESSING

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I was very disappointed in this dark and depressing story. Richard Paul Evans should stick to the genre we know and love. sometimes going outside the book is not a good thing. I knew within the first couple of chapters where this was going and it continued to get worse. Anyone who has been abused as a child should not read this book - it would be very upsetting. In fact, anyone who has not been abused would be upset by this story.

A subject that really needs to be dealt with....

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I am so very much connected to GRACE, from The Little Match Girl ( my favorite Anderson story) to GRACES Birthday,(mine also is October 17th) to he sexual abuse as a child. Although I had a very different outcome in life, I am so thankful that Richard Paul Evans has written this book, and touched on this subject, for TOO long (especially during the Graces era and before) the subject has been tabu, if you don't talk about it or acknowledge its existence, no one had to deal with the subject. Hopefully this book will open up the eyes of people and learn to listen to children, and to look for the signs that they are trying in their own way to speak out about what has happened to them. Truly a WONDERFUL book.

Grace is amazing

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The book is stunning in its portrayal of people, and how situations motivate a repsonse full of kindness and grace, or a response of following the rules with no questions asked. In this age of awareness of child abuse, Grace takes you back to a time that appeared full of innocence, when the reality was much bleaker and darker. The light of the main characters gives hope to us today. We all can respond to the call for grace.

If Six Stars Could be Give, This Book Would Get 6!!

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This is a novel that stays in your mind and heart forever. You experience this story, you do not merely read it. I was gripped with all sorts of emotions until I finished the last page. Thanks to seeing Richard Paul Evans on Glenn Beck's show one evening, I thought could any book live up to Beck's feelings about this novel? Yes, and it even surpassed his praise. Thank God for an author of Evans talent and character!