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- Fred V
- 04-11-20
Great bedtime story.
We really enjoyed stories years ago and still love hearing them. The characters are very relatable.
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- Cathryn Curtis
- 09-06-21
A visit with an old friend..
A lovely visit with an old friend or family member that you haven’t seen in quite some time. A chance to catch up on all the news and gossip from your old home town that you didn’t even know mattered to you. By the end of all Tom’s books, you come to know the people, their history, what gets them up and going in the morning, and what settles them in at night. They become your friends and they become important to you, as much as the people you knew decades ago, but have lost touch with.
Spend a little time catching up and getting to know them, again.
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