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When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, two siblings in their 50s and 60s, felt the desire to adopt a child, they asked to be paired up with a boy to help them run their farm, Green Gables. But through a twist of fate, they end up with Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphaned girl who has spent most of her childhood living in orphanages or with strangers in their homes.

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