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I avoided them.

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I read them avidly.  I loved girls taking their lives in their own hands.
I also was the only girl with 7 boy cousins.  Loved the stories.

I loved 'Little Women,' but thought that the "sequels" never matched it.

I think it was the titles; might have been the covers.

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When I was around 10, my two best friends and I would play "Little 
Women" for HOURS. I was always Meg and have always really identified 
with that character. There are so many really positive qualities about 
her. Anna was always Jo and Jenny was always Amy. We usually played out 
parts of the book or made up stuff after Beth died but sometimes when 
Jenny's sister was bugging us, we would re-enact the very very dramatic 
sick room and death scene for 15-20 minutes and then we would tell 
Jenny's sister to beat it because "BETH IS DEAD NOW!" There was some 
irony in that because the three of us spent so much time celebrating 
sisterly love while not being so nice to our real sisters :)

That book really sparked an interest in me for mid 19th century life 
and I spent a lot of time in the school's library reading about the 
history of the era. It inspired me to learn a lot and that is worth 
quite a bit. 

I haven't actually read any of the books save Little Women.  Don't know 
why, but Amy was my favorite.

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Yeah, I  thought Amy was kind of bratty at first and she kind of was 
but she was also just a kid. She grows up and turns into a very kind 
woman later on. 

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Loved it! I also liked Little Men, however i didn't like Jo's Boys and
Good Wives as much. I found them to be too sentimental and emotional.

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