"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."
"Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing."
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Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Book by Maud Hart Lovelace, 1943.
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"She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears."
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