Anne of green gables

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Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan to help out on the Green Gables farm. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn’t want a girl, but how can they return a boy, like an unwanted package? So Anne stays and starts a new life in the quiet and peaceful town of Avonlea in Canada. But it’s not so quiet after Anne comes to live there…