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    <body><![CDATA[Found this book to be a look inside the author's personal journey with her travels serving as a back drop to her journal-like self discoveries.  Based on the book's back-page summary, I hoped to read a book about many varying countries and new friendships made by way of spontaneous travel.  Rather, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11911855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to love this book.  A woman in her sixties taking off to travel around the world alone.  That should be applauded.  But the energy was just too safe and I got bored somewhere in India.  How is that possible?]]></body>
    
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