Cannot deserialize ActiveRecord object due to IList

[Michael]

Active record requires collections to be IList<T>, which I can't seem
to deserialize.  Does anyone have any suggestions to modify my AR
classes (or serialization/deserialization code) to allow me to
serialize/deserialize these AR classes?

    [Serializable]
    [DataContract]
    [ActiveRecord("Patients")]
    public class Patient : ActiveRecordBase<Patient>
    {
        [DataMember]
        [PrimaryKey(Generator = PrimaryKeyType.Identity, Column =
"PatientId")]
        public virtual long Id { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [Property(NotNull = true, Length = 100)]
        public virtual string First { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [Property(NotNull = true, Length = 100)]
        public virtual string Last { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [XmlArray]
        [HasMany(typeof(Address), Cascade =
ManyRelationCascadeEnum.AllDeleteOrphan, Table = "Addresses",
ColumnKey = "PatientId", Inverse = true)]
        public virtual IList<Address> Addresses { get; set; }
     }

    [Serializable]
    [DataContract]
    [ActiveRecord("Addresses")]
    public class Address : ActiveRecordBase<Address>
    {
        [DataMember]
        [PrimaryKey(Generator = PrimaryKeyType.Identity, Column =
"AddressId")]
        public virtual long Id { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [Property(NotNull = true, Length = 255)]
        public virtual string Address1 { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [Property(NotNull = true, Length = 255)]
        public virtual string City { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [Property(NotNull = true, Length = 10)]
        public virtual string PostalCode { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        [Property(NotNull = true, Length = 50)]
        public virtual string State { get; set; }
    }

Here's my code to serialize & deserialize:

        public static string Serialize(object objectToSerialize)
        {
            var ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
            ns.Add(String.Empty, String.Empty);

            var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
            var settings = new XmlWriterSettings {Indent = false,
OmitXmlDeclaration = true, Encoding = Encoding.UTF8};

            var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            var writer = XmlWriter.Create(memoryStream, settings);
            serializer.Serialize(writer, objectToSerialize, ns);

            return Utf8ByteArrayToString(memoryStream.ToArray());
        }

        public static object Deserialize(string objectXml, Type[]
additionalTypes)
        {
            var encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
            var byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(objectXml);

            var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
            var xmlRoot = XElement.Load(memoryStream);

            var o = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T),
additionalTypes).Deserialize(xmlRoot.CreateReader());
            return o;
        }

Thanks!

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