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    <![CDATA[Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey]]>
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    <![CDATA[Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last-teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride.  <br/><br/>  Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, <em>Riding the Bus with My Sister</em> is &quot;a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life&quot; (Boston Herald).]]>
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