Carrie, who fell in love with the older Soaring Eagle as a young girl, hopes that he can see her as a woman when they meet again--but he has changed over the years, trading his Indian life for a white one, and Carrie's dreams may be crushed when she finds him.

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About Stephanie Grace Whitson

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“So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.”

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“Love Sorrow Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help her into her little coat, hold her hand, especially when crossing a street. For, think, what if you should lose her? Then you would be sorrow yourself; her drawn face, her sleeplessness would be yours. Take care, touch her forehead that she feel herself not so utterly alone. And smile, that she does not altogether forget the world before the lesson. Have patience in abundance. And do not ever lie or ever leave her even for a moment by herself, which is to say, possibly, again, abandoned. She is strange, mute, difficult, sometimes unmanageable but, remember, she is a child. And amazing things can happen. And you may see, as the two of you go walking together in the morning light, how little by little she relaxes; she looks about her; she begins to grow.”

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