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\f0\fs24 In the library, Lizzie discovers and is refused Neil Gaiman's *Stardust* by Elikapeka on grounds of content maturity, settles for familiar McCaffrey titles she has already read, and during the subsequent grocery trip shares with her mother an unprompted declaration that she intends to write fantasy novels herself, which Elikapeka affirms without qualification, leaving the book refusal unresolved but the mother-daughter dynamic briefly and genuinely close.
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