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Chapter 8

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be so hurt if I did and I’d hate to hurt anybody’s feelings, even a little bookcase-girl’s or a little echo girl’s. I must be careful to remember them, and send them a kiss every day.”

Anne blew a couple of airy kisses from her finger-tips past the cherry blossoms and then, with her chin in her hands, drifted luxuriously out on a say of day-dreams.

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PHOTO ANNOTATION

black and white photo of a small cherry tree in full, snowy bloom

"past the cherry blossoms": One of Montgomery's numerous photos of a blooming tree at her Campbell cousins' home in Park Corner. The Macneill place, too, would be surrounded by blossoms in the spring. As Claire Campbell notes, most of the blossoms mentioned in the novel are fruit tree blossoms.
Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph, L.M. Montgomery Collection