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Back in 1999, Bryanna Plantier was five years old, she went to Barnes & **ble with her grandmother and used her hoarded cash to buy her first book:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.*
Seventeen years later, the community inspired by the seven-book, eight-film ****** is thriving, and Plantier is thriving because of it. The support of
Harry Potter and his
fans have changed her life — and her relationship with her daughter, who has been diag**sed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.*
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A few years ago, Plantier decided to pack up her daughter and move to Central Florida to attend Saint Leo University. She didn’t k**w anyone until she joined both the Central Florida Slug Club and the
Harry Potter Alliance. For the first time, Plantier said, she had found where she fits.
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