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Frances M. Carlson

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Atlanta, The United States

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Http://Www.bigbodyplay.com

Genre

Crime, Historical Fiction, Poetry

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August 2010

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Average rating: 4.08 · 60 ratings · 11 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Big Body Play: Why Boisterous, Vigorous, and Very Physical Play Is Essential to Children's Development and Learning 4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essential Touch: Meeting the Needs of Young Children by Frances M. Carlson (Goodreads Author), Frances M. Carlson (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

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Heartbreak Hill

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The Nice Guy and the Devil (Cain, #2)

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”
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