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<p>Painfully lonely and a helpless outsider, ten year old Judith finds herself bullied at school and escapes to the Land of Decoration, the miniature ‘Promised Land’ she has built in her bedroom. One night, consumed with fear she prays for snow to fall and close the school. When she wakes the next morning to find the town covered in the real thing, it can only mean one thing: she can perform miracles.</p>
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