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Ghostly girl
“I was just a child that Christmas in 1958.          
What I saw and heard changed everything.
And Ion't ever forget. No one should.”

Book cover for Ollie's Gift by Maria Roncari
“The more things change,
the more they stay the same.
Until we change it for good."

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The heart of Dixie reveals a starkly different reality from her New England white Christmas, thrusting Marie into a world of racism, poverty, and hatred she
never knew existed.



Maria Roncari

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    “I just couldn't stop
          turning the pages!”

            — Jack Canfield,
                  Author/Speaker
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