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Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees

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“When you get down to it, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.” I read these words in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the summer before my senior year. It’s the story of selfless love, everlasting hope, and incredible faith - all three things I aspire to surround myself with some day. The novel not only challenged my views of the world, but also inspired me to consider new ways of handling difficult situations, similar to the ones with which I am faced as a peer counselor at my school. In this roll, I often listen to people’s struggles and emotions and have to interpret them without judgement; however, it wasn’t until I finished this novel that I truly understood how

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