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"Welcome back, Anne"

Hetty King, Davey and Dora - Road To Avonlea

aahhh, very much agree! i am much more of a dora than a davy and also always took the way dora was written rather personally. ngl rereading the davy & dora bits of the books was kind of an exercise in frustration -- the shed incident most noticeably since it brings in anne and how she makes the whole thing about davy's feelings, but there's a bunch of background incidents (dora falling into the pigpen! dora falling down the stairs! davy cutting up all of dora's aprons!) that all get written off like it doesn't really matter that these things happen to dora, because only a boring, staid girl would care about behaving well or keeping her clothes clean, and such a girl doesn't need affection anyway. it was unpleasant :/

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**After recovering from a stroke, Rachel Lynde is desperate to return to Green Gables, getting away from her loving but overbearing sons and back to orphans Davey and Dora. On the train, Rachel suffers another stroke and is taken to a hospital, unable to speak. Meanwhile, Davey and Dora wait at the train station for Rachel to arrive and are disappointed when she fails to show. Hetty and Olivia try not to panic but the twins feel something is wrong. At the hospital, Rachel tries to communicate but is unable to and has no form of identification on her. In the middle of the night, she makes her escape and is relieved when the conductor lets her board the train to Avonlea without a ticket. Arriving at the Avonlea train station, there is no one there to greet her, so Rachel decides to walk to Rose Cottage. At the house Davey and Dora are shoveling the walk when they see Rachel lying in the snow and they run to her...