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    <body><![CDATA[Is it me???? I cannot seem to get through a book lately. I find myself 1/3 of the way in thinking, 'GOOD GRIEF. Why am I spending my time on this? Why do I care????' In this case, the author - a Catholic author with no theological training - is writing about Heaven, speculating on what he thinks it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17885961">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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