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<h2> Preface </h2>
<p>As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they
intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no
moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl, and the Sequel
was simply written in fulfillment of a promise, hoping to afford some
amusement, and perhaps here and there a helpful hint, to other roses
getting ready to bloom.</p>
<p>L. M. Alcott</p>
<p>September 1876</p>
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