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    <body><![CDATA[Summary: Barbie has not lived up to her fellow doll's name or her mother's expectations as a model. She is thrown into the career by the crocodile at a very young age. She is left with a photographer where you are left to assume what happens behind the closed door... It skips to Barbie being 16 and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63438804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on a Francesca Lia Block kick and rapidly coming to the conclusion that anything she writes is worth reading for the writing alone.<br/><br/>This is a good story and everything--surprise!--turns out fine. I'm still not convinced that being a beautiful butterfly pinned to the corkboard of life ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61241667">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has been in my TBR pile for a long time, and I had high hopes going into it. Unfortunately, this book was not really me.<br/><br/>What I liked: I thought the book had a wonderful underlying message. It ended on a high note which is something I was not sure was going to happen. The charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63529224">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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