I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emm — Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
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I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

— Elle Thornton, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
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