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		<title>Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s no pretending you didn’t hear the word. It makes itself known. It doesn’t wait for you to introduce it to friends and family. It takes the lead. It lures dreams of grandchildren to the edge of the plank, and pushes them off with no remorse. It shatters spirits and terrorizes stability. It crouches like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many have considered sexual abuse an epidemic. Do you agree? What are the lasting affects of sexual abuse? How does it alter a person&#8217;s boundaries or their ability to trust or love someone?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Loss of Innocence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They question themselves. As if ten year-olds can be sexy. They blame their mothers. She should have protected them. They equate sex with love. Because daddy loved them. They bounce between boundaries. He had none. They become intimate with repression. To make life seem a little more fair. They become mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unlovable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You must be taught to be unlovable And we have mastered the lesson. Our fathers, former students, have become the teachers, Through unintended lesson plans with the &#8220;I&#8217;s&#8221; of illigitimacy and insecurity dotted. We are very intimate with childish games. They jump in and out of our lives like a game of Double Dutch And [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watching Your Parents Argue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was alone but sounds and words swirled inside of my room, as if they were aromas from our neighbor’s cooking. Iraq and Iran had converged between the lavender of my walls. I became accustomed to bullets disguised as voices shooting through the key hole and underneath my door. Being seven in a warring household, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Staying For the Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wake up. Go to Work. Come Home. Repeat The kids didn&#8217;t fit in his schedule. Wake up. Go to Work. Come Home. Repeat You left. You went back. Repeat. You stayed. How much of it was because a broken home would make you feel broken?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can you think back to a moment when you were the most proud of your father? &#8220;I think it was more the combination of stories and what I observed. When I would look at the picture of he and I standing at the University of Maryland where he finished when I was three years-old and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cancer</title>
		<link>https://fathersproject.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s no pretending you didn’t hear the word. It makes itself known. It doesn’t wait for you to introduce it to friends and family. It takes the lead. It lures dreams of grandchildren to the edge of the plank, and pushes them off with no remorse. It shatters spirits and terrorizes stability. It crouches like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unconditional Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My childhood has been steeped in my mother&#8217;s adages. In the fourth grade, I sat with my mother in our huge grey plymouth. On our way to the grocery store, she looked at me and said, &#8220;Never think you can change a man. You can&#8217;t teach an old dog new tricks.&#8221; When I was a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent the night with my parents, something I haven&#8217;t done in years, despite living in the same city. I showed up, unexpectedly on a Saturday afternoon. My mom, peaking through the picture window, had the front door open before I even cut my car off. After some trouble swallowing even the softest of foods, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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