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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled And Both Were Young about Occasional, Kirkus, Reviews with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life.
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conversations.value: A well-written story. Occasional emotional abysses provide a touch of melodrama.... To many girls the setting will be fascinating -- and the boarding school background is usually a popular one (only too hard to find today). Kirkus Reviews
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled And Both Were Young.. Start with the sentence 'And Both Were Young: In the late 1940s, Connecticut teenager Philippa "Flip" Hunter is sent to boarding school in Switzerland after recovering from a knee injury sustained in an automobile accident that also killed her mother'.
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conversations.value: And Both Were Young: In the late 1940s, Connecticut teenager Philippa "Flip" Hunter is sent to boarding school in Switzerland after recovering from a knee injury sustained in an automobile accident that also killed her mother.\nHer father Philip Hunter, an illustrator of children\'s books, is planning to travel around Europe making sketches for a book on lost children, and he is also being romantically pursued by the beautiful Eunice Jackman, whom Flip dislikes, partly because Eunice suggested the boarding school.\nAlthough Flip really wants to stay with her father, he thinks it would be better for her to be in the school where she can meet more young people and he can easily visit her at Christmas and Easter.\nUpon arrival at the school, Flip happens to meet a local boy named Paul Laurens, in whom she confides some of her unhappiness with Eunice and with being separated from her father.\nAfter her father and Eunice leave, Flip has trouble fitting in at the school.\nShe misses her father and her home, is still mourning her mother, performs poorly at school athletics due to her knee injury, and does not easily make friends with her sophisticated classmates, many of whom also come from dysfunctional family backgrounds.\nHer classmates mock her and give her the derisive nickname "Pill".\nIn an effort to get some private time, she visits the school chapel, but this gets her reprimanded by the administrator and laughed at by the other girls, She resorts to going for illicit walks off the school grounds, discovers that Paul lives nearby with his father, and the two make friends and begin to meet regularly.\nAfter a hazing ritual in which Flip is physically abused by the other girls and then left blindfolded, gagged and tied to a tree in the woods, she is rescued by the art teacher, Madame Perceval.\nMadame Perceval also finds out about Flip\'s secret meetings with Paul, who turns out to be her nephew, and arranges things so that Flip can visit Paul at her home and not have to break school rules.\nFlip learns that Paul is a war orphan who was rescued by Madame Perceval\'s brother-in-law and that he has lost his memory of his past due to trauma he suffered in a concentration camp.\nTheir growing relationship is therapeutic for them both.\nAs time goes by, Flip\'s talent for art is recognized by the other girls and her confidence grows as a result of her friendship with Paul and Madame Perceval.\nShe begins to make friends and fit in at school.\nWhen she does poorly at skiing lessons and her ski teacher expels her from the class as being unteachable, Madame Perceval notices that Flip\'s skis are actually too long for her and caused the clumsiness, and provides her with a properly sized pair.\nPaul and Madame Perceval secretly teach Flip to ski so she can surprise the other girls.\nMadame Perceval over time becomes a mother figure to Flip, who reminds Madame of her own deceased daughter.\nMadame eventually decides to leave her teaching position and work teaching art to children affected by the war.\nIn the course of this work, she meets Flip\'s father.\nPaul\'s memory is restored after an encounter with a man falsely claiming to be his father results in an accidental injury to Flip.\nFlip participates in the school ski meet and, when the ski teacher and her schoolmates express doubts that she can ski at all, much less race, she reveals her relationship with Paul (and eventually Madame Perceval) and how she was taught to ski.\nShe ends up performing well at the meet, but gives up her chance to win a race because she goes back to help her friend Erna, who has hit a patch of ice and broken an ankle, and then helps the captain of the ski team get Erna down the mountain for medical help.\nAs a result, Flip is awarded the silver cup in front of her schoolmates, Madame Perceval, Paul and her father, who has come for the occasion.\nFlip\'s happiness at seeing her father, on top of winning the cup and being in a romantic relationship with Paul, is further enhanced when romance blooms between Philip Hunter and Madame Perceval.
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conversations.value: Provide the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: And Both Were Young
  Summary: Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.
  The boy looked at Flip's navy blue coat. "I'm afraid Ariel got your coat dirty. His paws are always muddy."
  Flip brushed her hand across her eyes and smiled back. "No. I was just—in a rage. I always cry when I'm mad. It's terrible!" She blew her nose furiously.
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conversations.value: Provide four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Madame put her hand on Flip's shoulder. "I'm very glad this happened to you, Philippa, instead of—say, one of your roommates. Very glad." She was smiling warmly and Flip's heart leaped with joy at this great praise. Madame gave her a little shove. "Run along now," she said.
  Flip was ready and waiting in the big hall when Monsieur Laurens came for her the next afternoon. The girls were all curious and rather envious when, in answer to their questions, they learned that Flip had been given special permission to have tea with Madame's nephew, and she felt that her stock had gone up with them.
  Erna whispered to Flip, "Esmée and Sally're just boy crazy. Don't mind them. Personally I think boys are dopes."
  At the gate house an hour later, Flip and Paul lay on the great rug in front of the fire and roasted chestnuts while Georges Laurens watched from his chair and Ariel rested his head on his master's knee.
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conversations.value: Provide the last paragraph.
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conversations.value: Paul leaned toward her, kissing her gently. "And this is enough for now. For now," he repeated, and kissed her again. Then, "Let's go for a walk."