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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks’ gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to &quot;let her babies go&quot; — she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiply disabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube. <p></p><p></p><em>This Lovely Life </em>tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins — the harrowing medical interventions and ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death. In the end, the longdelayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative. Forman’s intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother’s fierce love for her children. <p></p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood]]>
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    <![CDATA[Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie at twenty-three weeks gestation and weighing just a pound at birth.  During the delivery, she begged the doctors to “let her babies go”–she knew all too well that at twenty three weeks they could very well die, and if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died just four days later; her son survived and is indeed multiply-disabled.<br/><br/>Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Bakeless Prize in Creative Nonfiction, This Lovely Life tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of the Forman family after the birth of the twins with brilliant intensity–the harrowing medical interventions, ethical considerations involving the sanctity of life and death.  In the end, the long-delayed first steps of a five-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of a triumph narrative.  Forman’s intelligent voice gives a sensitive, nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventual acceptance in this portrait of a mother’s fierce love for her children.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Thirteen-year-old Janet Marshall spends all of her spare time daydreaming about horses. One night, she dreams to life a magical white mare, whom she names Storm. Astride her dream horse, she journeys deep into a wild canyon where she discovers the remote ranch that is the mare's home. But the dream becomes a nightmare when she discovers the truth: her horse is a darkly magical beast that can never be tamed. And the horse's owners are ghosts, doomed to relive the tragedy that has kept them trapped in time for more than a hundred years.  ]]>
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    <![CDATA[Captured and programmed by the mysterious Tribune to kill the   mutant Mystique, Sabretooth is unaware that Mystique was once his   girlfriend-in-disguise and that Tribune is their son and a vengeful   mutant-hater. ]]>
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