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          <body><![CDATA[There were so many beautiful and witty lines in these stories. Though I identified with very few of the women and their attraction to rugged uber-masculine outdoorsmen, and though the narration veered into 90's self-consciousness a few times, I could easily read these stories over and over again. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56626957">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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