![]() I still treasure my own enduring friendships with two schoolmates, Sandy and Carolyn. ![]() The stories span their school years through young adulthood when, in 1914, Betsy travels to Europe on her own and realizes her dream of becoming a writer.įrom the beginning, their world was my world, and Betsy’s dreams mirrored my own, as a youngster growing up on a family farm where I could run free and my imagination could run with it. Looking back, it’s hard to remember a time when these stories of friendship, adventure and a restless eagerness to grow up, coupled with the bumps and hard truths that come with leaving childhood behind, weren’t part of my life. “It was difficult, later, to think of a time when Betsy and Tacy had not been friends.” This is the first line of the first book in a series that Maud Hart Lovelace wrote between 19, about the enduring friendships of Betsy, Tacy and Tib, growing up in fictional Deep Valley, Minnesota, at the turn of the last century. ![]()
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