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173:(London and New York: Routledge, 2014). It is argued that although the ambiguity at the end of the novel 'does not make visible specifically, and unequivocally positive, gay identity, at a time when such representations were absent from children's literature, the use of the word 'maybe' both releases the protagonists from a certain heterosexual future and suggests the possibility of a non-heterosexual future, positioning both futures on equal terms' (p. 53).
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