Island Boy: Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of New England. Miss Rumphius: As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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