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Hans Christian Andersen was terrible, even in my early picture books with the stories prettified. The one that most traumatized me, though, was "The Fir Tree"; I related to that more than to the stories of children, maybe because those old-timey children weren't real to me, but a Christmas tree sure was. The story horrified me and still does.
Reading Black Beauty was also traumatic--again, even in a child's picture book version. When I read the full story some years later, I was retraumatized; some scenes are still in my head all this time later.
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