Vivian’s Reviews > Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door > Status Update

“… them, a place where girls like Nellie Bigelow can be cruel and not suffer for it. I could make a much longer list. It is not quite the world I thought. But it is MY world and so I am thankful for everything wonderful that is in it…”

“Long ago, Father asked me what I thought of the world, and I said it was wonderful. But many times during the past months I have known it is also a sad world and a dangerous one, a world where people like Cousin Anna can grow up with a mother who doesn’t want her, where a person like Marianna and Jasper’s mother has to give up her children just because she has not enough money to feed…”