Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said. ✨ C. S. Lewis …

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Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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