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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 16:14:01 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 20 16:34:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I REALLY liked this book.  I will probably reread it sometime in the near future.  There is page after page turned down to mark favorite snippets.  The characters in this book are so wonderful.  The author manages to do something that most others can't:  She has made it clearly understandable how members of this family can love and dislike each other at the same time without turning anyone into a hero or a villian.<br/><br/>The characters are always using the best turns of phrase:<br/>&quot;...You will appreciate this gift of time.  A valuable gift that goes as soon as it arrives.&quot;<br/>&quot;Stretch your legs only as far as your cot goes!&quot;<br/>&quot;...joy and sorrow, anger and pain, memory and forgetfulness - the salt and sugar of daily existence.&quot;<br/>&quot;My flowers are so fresh you can smell the wind on them still.&quot;]]></body>
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