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When you were a child, did you stop in the middle of reading ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ and think, ‘Hey, this is really an allegory about race?’ Turns out, the books we loved from our childhood were actually far more complex than we ever imagined. Andy Simmons explores these books on Reader’s Digest website.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A metaphor for faith
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