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		<title>MidLife Caregiving - a note from home</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our rich &#38; busy life here in McLeod Ganj continues on. Two weeks of volunteering have gone by quickly, only three more to go, sadly. We&#8217;re already talking about coming back to teach at &#8216;our&#8217; center for two months at a later date.
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day I meet women and men who have walked out of Tibet - some as recently as last week, some many years ago like our friend. It&#8217;s a gruelling journey, taken in the fall usually, before winter sets in in the Himalayas.
It&#8217;s like another world to us&#8230;one we&#8217;ll never understand. But we try our best to learn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India - McLeod Ganj- Home of the Dalai Lama</title>
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