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A sick boy looking tending to a flower pot.

A young boy is carried to Heaven by an angel.

A little girl freezes to death in a street holding a bundle of matches.

A young girl reaches for her grandmother.

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

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This is the cover page of the text Adventures of a Pincushion, created by Mary Jane Kilner (1787).

A bar graph showing the differences in the breakdown of ages between deceased male and female characters.

A pie chart showing the breakdown of ages at death for female characters.

A pie chart showing the breakdown of age ranges at death of male characters.