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    <body><![CDATA[Great memoir! Burana wrote about so much more than a man in uniform. Painfully honest, Burana shares her soul and writes about love, absence, stripping, life-altering changes, childhood abuse, depression, and post traumatic stress disorder. Beautifully written, incredibly engaging, heartbreakingly s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48523330">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel a little cruel . I know what Lily Burana experienced was remarkable to her. But in her telling, it's far less remarkable for this particular reader.<br/><br/>I picked this up based on reviews positioning it as a story of opposites--riot girl former stripper and military guy--falling for eac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61631644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Most of the world will miss the point.  But, for those of us who understand, Ms. Burana takes you to a place where you can violently sob through your laughter.  And, for those of you who are willing to look beyond the pages and into self-reflection, you will discover more about yourself and yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58960734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[An all-American love story about a former punk-rock stripper and her unlikely marriage to an officer in the U.S. Army.  <p>  In this brave, eloquent, and funny memoir, critically acclaimed author Lily Burana writes about love and self-discovery with an honesty few writers would dare.  <p>  A former stripper with a penchant for fishnets and anarchist politics, Lily's lacerating wit and rebellious past never would have suggested a marriage into the military.  But then she met Major Mike, a Military Intelligence officer and professor at West Point, and fell hopelessly in love, resulting in a most unorthodox fairytale romance -- poignant, sometimes painful, and utterly unpredictable.  <p>  After Lily and Mike tied the knot, life as an Army wife proved to be a rough adjustment for authority-averse Lily.  When Mike was deployed in the War on Terror, Lily was suddenly left to endure his absence alone, with no friends, no support system, and no knowledge of the vast and confusing military world into which she had married.  <p>  Upon Mike's return from the war, the couple moved to historic West Point.  With the support of the other military wives, Lily worked through the daily struggle to find her way and came to know and love a group of unlikely friends.  Together, Mike and Lily suffered through the nightmare of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, while Lily suffered bouts of depression that nearly ended their marriage.  Through it all, Lily struggled with her preconceptions about the military and coped with being married to a good soldier fighting a brutal war.  <p>  From harrowing emotion to the dishy details of being an Army wife, Lily Burana bares her heart and soul as a modern military spouse.  <em> I Love a Man in Uniform </em> is a profoundly moving story of how a woman can locate, and heal, her true self.  </p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok so I read this book a few books after I read &quot;love in condition yellow&quot;. I have to say I liked this book a hundred times better. I could relate to her better and she wasnt so closed minded. She made things work for her. Instead of closing everyone else out like the other book. She was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59104770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. its the good, bad and the ugly of being an army wife. the author really puts herself out there, leaving out no detail. its different than alot of the other army wife books ive read.<br/>she tells it like it is, without worrying about being judged. very raw, very emotiona...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65408551">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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