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In the book a family drank from a spring that they found while crossing the country looking for a place to live. The book begins when a girl comes upon the spring and goes to drink from it but the 'youngest' of the family that DID drink stops her. Eventually she learns the implications of drinking and makes a choice whether to drink or not. The family cannot die. I forget which one but one of them is shot in the story and heals within minutes. I think I remember them feeling some pain but it's only very temporary. That is another fear of the family in the book. During their time people still hung 'witches' and since they could not be harmed and did not age they feared they would be labled as witches. Hung or burned or shot, feel the pain, but be unable to die. Imagine being hung from a rope but not being able to die and free from that.
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