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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19970810
Author:Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff

CAVENDISH, Prince Edward Island -- For Yoshiko Nishimura, the long journey to this pastoral island was less a pleasure trip than a pilgrimage, an almost religious rite.

"I cried for happiness upon arrival," said the 23-year-old office worker from Osaka. "Every Japanese girl dreams of one day paying respects to the land of Anne of Red Hair. She is much beloved."

Nishimura was speaking, of course, of the fictional heroine of author Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 coming-of-age classic, "Anne of Green Gables." The novel tells of a plucky, intensely romantic, rather homely red-braided girl growing ...

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