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    <body><![CDATA[A nice coming of age story set in the 1960's Atlanta.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a fool for emotive, coming-of-age, stand-next-to-greatness type stories.  This is one of the best.  Just hearing the song Downtown makes me choke up after reading this book.  This is old fashioned chick lit--more like, woman lit.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE it! Smokey O'Donnell is awesome and I definitely wanted to be her in this book. It's a great peek at history around the time of the Civil Rights Movement and you get a real feel for what was happening during that time. This is my favorite of all of Anne Rivers Siddons books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVED IT!! Another Siddons' book that is based in Atlanta. This one centers around the civil rights movement of the 60s which is my era, giving the story even more plausibility for me. LOVED IT!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really gave me a sense of setting.  It evoked the feelings of the 60's, so I felt in the moment, despite being born more than a decade later.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a bit of a fluff piece! Wish I had a been on the beach while reading it. Nothing earth shattering.]]></body>
    
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