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An avid reader and prolific writer, she attended the university of kentucky and taught. Murphys hobbies include playing the flute, classical music, and the opera. In the winter of 1943, on the outskirts of a dark forest, two jewish children flee the nazis with their father and stepmother. The true story of hansel and gretel is a book to be remembered. The true story of hansel and gretel the book shark.

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