Margaret GeorgeHope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
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Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost. Hope is a beautiful thing, but it’s fragile. It’s made of thin air and if you hold it too tightly, you can break it. We should keep our hope in us and not let other people steal it from us.
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