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          <body><![CDATA[This was one of the few books I've read three times. I love Charles Dickens.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:19:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I haven't read the book yet, but understand it is poignant and personal containing thoughts and feelings that typically stay locked deep inside our own mind, rarely spoken to anyone other than extraordinarily close confidantes. <br/><br/>From my experience, many aspiring memoir writers struggle mightily with this exercise of putting their most intimate feelings out into the open.<br/><br/>Could you say a few words about the inner journey you had to take in order to convert these very interior thoughts and feelings into words on a page that would shared with the reading public?<br/><br/>Thanks,<br/>Jerry<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.memorywritersnetwork.com/blog"> Memory Writers Network </a><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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