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Do you think the Wizard of Oz would have been nearly as popular if Dorothy had taken the advice of the Good Witch and followed the yellow brick road? Imagine the story line, “And so, Dorothy followed the yellow brick road and nothing happened. The end.” The book would have wrapped up after about twenty pages and most people would be using it as a cure for insomnia. Instead the author had the good sense to depict Dorothy as a curious, normal young woman who wasn’t necessarily keen on following the path of someone else’s design. Dorothy was a trailblazer.