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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ My favorite book is *The True Deceiver* by Tove Jansson, famed creator of the Mo
 
 In *The True Deceiver*, Katri Kling and her brother Mats live in an isolated town in Sweden. That is, I assume it’s Sweden; the book contains no dates, no references to current events, no clue about the exact location or references to big cities. The book’s insularity makes it all the more compelling. 
 
-Katri is unlikeable and has odd yellow eyes, and her brother Mats is “simple.”. They’re the kids of a mother who died and a foreigner father (“he’d not been a local man”). They live in an apartment above a store where Katri used to do the books, until she rejected the advances of the storekeeper (“his lust was ludicrous”). Even though the townspeople hold her at a distance, Katri is known to be honest and provides legal advice to pretty much the whole town, teaching them how to look out for their own self-interests. Katri loves nobody in the world except for her brother (she only tolerates her nameless dog). Mats works at a shipbuilding operation owned by Edvard Liljeberg and his brothers, doing “small jobs that were not too important” (7). He dreams of designing boats. Katri dreams of commissioning a boat for Mats based on his designs. To achieve this goal, Katri sets her sights on Anna Aemelin.
+Katri is unlikeable and has odd yellow eyes, and her brother Mats is “simple.” They’re the kids of a mother who died and a foreigner father (“he’d not been a local man”). They live in an apartment above a store where Katri used to do the books, until she rejected the advances of the storekeeper (“his lust was ludicrous”). Even though the townspeople hold her at a distance, Katri is known to be honest and provides legal advice to pretty much the whole town, teaching them how to look out for their own self-interests. Katri loves nobody in the world except for her brother (she only tolerates her nameless dog). Mats works at a shipbuilding operation owned by Edvard Liljeberg and his brothers, doing “small jobs that were not too important” (7). He dreams of designing boats. Katri dreams of commissioning a boat for Mats based on his designs. To achieve this goal, Katri sets her sights on Anna Aemelin.
 
 Anna Aemelin is a shut-in children’s book illustrator who lives in a large, beautiful house at the edge of town. The villagers call it “the rabbit house,” both because “it actually resembled a large, crouched rabbit” and because Anna Aemelin is a successful children’s book illustrator who draws cartoons of rabbits with flowery fur. Like Katri, Anna is also isolated from the town due to her parentage (but in her case, because of her parents’ wealth and general snootiness) and personality (Anna is timid and standoffish, and prefers to be alone). Katri has no connection to Anna, but nevertheless embarks on a scheme to get Mats his boat by moving into the rabbit house and streamlining Anna’s life and money: