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I read this story in my seventh grade reading book, so 1995-6. The main character is a young/nearly teenage girl, and it was set in the past (not sure when exactly, but it had horse drawn carts and such). While wandering in the forest, she encounters a young man who warns her not to drink from the spring he was just drinking from. She later meets his family: an older brother, mother and father. They don't age and won't die because they drank the water long ago, not knowing its effect. The older brother was once married but was chased out of the town as evil because he never aged. The younger brother eventually gives the girl a bottle of the water and tells her to drink it when she turns 17 (his age) and then they can be together always. She instead ends up pouring it on a frog that's about to be killed by a dog. The family visits the town many years later and finds the girl's grave inscribed with something like loving wife and mother on it. They also nearly run over the immortal frog while in the town. Hopefully someone will recognize this, as it is far from vague.
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JoeNotCharles posted:Sounds like Tuck Everlasting, although I've only got plot summaries of the movie to go on. That would be it, Thanks! I'm surprised I never knew about the movie, and amused that I kinda blocked out the whole murder/hanging part.
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Jun 15, 2008 08:29
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