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		<title>Drama queen on Facebook</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.&#8221; &#8212; Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Somebody once said that high school is &#8220;the mouse race that prepares you for the rat race,&#8221; and I suppose there&#8217;s a glimmer of truth in that. Like a pair of cruel shoes, my high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine to France</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.&#8221; &#8212; James Taylor, American songwriter Traveling in provincial France and Paris for our 25th anniversary, my husband and I had a rare chance to observe a lifestyle noticeably different from our own.Â  The best souvenirs we brought back home weren&#8217;t the trinkets we&#8217;d collected from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrift shop angel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In almost every situation, there are ways that we can fly higher, at fuller wingspan.&#8221; &#8212; Marianne Williamson For some, &#8220;thrifting&#8221; is a hobby. For others, it&#8217;s the only way to afford clothes or household goods. If you shop at flea markets and thrift shops for designer discards and vintage clothing, you might appreciate this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The giving season</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! &#8211; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Our country&#8217;s economic recession is making it twice as tough for charitable organizations to do their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeing my free time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?&#8221; &#8212; Mary Oliver So, I asked a newly retired newspaper columnist if she&#8217;s planning to start a blog &#8212; especially now that her work isn&#8217;t appearing regularly in print. I&#8217;ve admired her beautiful writing for a long time, I [...]]]></description>
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