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    Star Mother
    Star Mother
    Star Mother
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    Star Mother

    By Robert F. Young

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Star Mother - Robert F. Young

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      Title: Star Mother

      Author: Robert F. Young

      Release Date: October 18, 2008 [EBook #26957]

      Language: English

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      STAR MOTHER

      By ROBERT F. YOUNG

      A touching story of the most enduring love in all eternity.

      That night her son was the first star.

      She stood motionless in the garden, one hand pressed against her heart, watching him rise above the fields where he had played as a boy, where he had worked as a young man; and she wondered whether he was thinking of those fields now, whether he was thinking of her standing alone in the April night with her memories; whether he was thinking of the verandahed house behind her, with its empty rooms and silent halls, that once upon a time had been his birthplace.

      Higher still and higher he rose in the southern sky, and then, when he had reached his zenith, he dropped swiftly down past the dark edge of the Earth and disappeared from sight. A boy grown up too

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