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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:22:49 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Arch wrote: &quot;Some women are naturally thin and to me they look a healthy thin. The women that are starving themselves to be thin, don't look healthy to me. Even some naturally thin women in Hollywood are starvi...&quot;</em><br/><br/>You're doctor told you that you're supposed to be 101 lbs? That's crazy. I think that most people are that weight during middle and high school.<br/><br/>Personally, I think its sad that women have to make themselves fit into an image to be considered beautiful. It would be so much better if women were just allowed to be themselves and admired for it. Eating healthy and working out are not bad, but they are often taken to the extreme. There are many women who actually do not look very good when they lose a lot of weight and the extra pounds actually make them look their best - like my mother.<br/><br/>I'm actually 5'7&quot; and generally considered &quot;voluptuous&quot;. starving myself would make me look weird and sickly, so I only work out to keep the fat at bay. I'm happier and prettier that way.  <br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78523.Silent_Melody">Silent Melody (Georgian, #2)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9759.Mary_Balogh">Mary Balogh</a>]]></action_text>
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          <body><![CDATA[A married hero is unsettling. Mostly because he is emotionally involved with someone in a permanent manner. Marriage is what we readers see as a commitment or a happily ever after. Any signs of breaking that is undesirable.<br/>A prostitute is still unattached, therefore being the heroine and finding love is something that we all can appreciate. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1687289.Hybrid_Child">Hybrid Child (Yaoi)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/354455.Shungiku_Nakamura">Shungiku Nakamura</a>]]></action_text>
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          <body><![CDATA[Thanks, Danielle.<br/><br/>Rhage does seem more appealing. Actually I started reading book 2 and I like it better.<br/><br/>Mr. X pissed me off, but the Lessors in book 2 seem more interesting. Still, I really wish the enemies were more fleshed out, rather that out to torture and destroy. ]]></body>
        
    
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