What If You Wish?

What If You Wish

Copyright © 2023 by Anne Appert

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023931267

ISBN 978-0-06-303613-0

The artist used Procreate to create the digital illustrations for this book.

Typography by Chelsea C. Donaldson

To Elizabeth, for all the hours we wondered the what-ifs together.

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When a spring breeze blows, a quiet promise whispers, What if?

Wonder stirs.

A wish blooms.

Imagination soars

. . . into hopeful dreams.

But what if a stormy wind clouds possibility with questions and drowns promises with shouts?

Doubt stirs.

Wonder whips into worry.

Are hopes enough? What if wishes are just impossible questions . . .

. . . or unreachable dreams?

What if?

Doubt lingers,

until a persistent ripple appears.

Wonder stirs. A new what-if.

What if a wish met by wonder makes the impossible possible?

What if it becomes a tide, releasing hope from inside?

What if when promises whisper and even when doubt stirs, you wonder,

. . . and make a wish?

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