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Rejuvenation Theme Grows Well in 'Garden'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010510
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Classic literature made its way to the stage at Albert Einstein High School last weekend. "The Secret Garden," based on the timeless book written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a young girl who is the sole survivor among her family after a cholera outbreak in 1906 India.

She is found and sent to England to live with her Uncle Archibald, a hunchback who has been inconsolable ever since his wife Lily's death during childbirth. Archibald is so distraught that he attempts to detach himself of everything that reminds him of Lily, including her garden and their crippled ...

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