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    <body><![CDATA[If I Stay is a bittersweet memory of a family and their loved ones. It's told through the eyes of Mia, who watches herself being treated in the hospital as her loved ones surround her. And she has to make the toughest choice of all...<br/><br/>I really love the way the story was told, while Mia is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40823015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[No matter how many books I read, a good one will still commandeer my emotions and my sensibilities and take me along for the journey. Gayle Forman's <em>If I Stay</em> is a heart-rending novel that amazingly enough never gets too melodramatic or pithy. The main character, Mia, could have easily slipped into ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38267764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I’d read the synopsis multiple times, I never really “got” what the story was until I read the first chapter when it all happens. When you find out Mia is making the choice as her body lays waiting in the ICU. She becomes an invisible observer, watching and narrating her tragic ordeal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36036760">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mia’s life is up in the air. Literally. She’s doesn’t know where she’s going to college, she doesn’t know where things are going with her boyfriend, she’s just been in a car accident, and she has no idea where she is. Caught somewhere between life and death, Mia thinks about her life and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72367340">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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