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    <![CDATA[How They Met, and Other Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[Just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to appeal to fans of Boy Meets Boy. Here are 18 stories, all about love, and about all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In his Author's Note, David Levithan explains that this collection of short stories sprang from a tradition of presenting short stories to his friends and family on Valentine's Day.  As a result, we have <em>How They Met and Other Stories</em>, which even contains the original Valentine's Day story, &quot;A ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59174294">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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