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Japanese Annes come in search of green gables

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20030618
Author:Clifford Krauss

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It's a long way from home, but this bucolic island of gingerbread cottages and rolling green hills is where generations of Japanese girls have dreamed of getting married, or of simply visiting before they die. As adults, they come by the thousands every year, a few with their hair dyed red and tied in pigtails just like Anne Shirley, the heroine of ''Anne of Green Gables,'' Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel about the irrepressible orphan from the fictional town of Avonlea. Many of these pilgrims break into tears of joy when they visit the house in Clifton, the town where ...

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