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		<title>Gift of community</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our national myths often exaggerate the role of individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Putnam 
Taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather this month, I took a late afternoon bike ride through our subdivision. As I waved at neighbors who were fastening holiday lights to picket fences and evergreen branches, [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to look for NeHi Pop and Burma Shave signs and drive through the kind of small towns that Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney used to inhabit in the movies&#8230;.I wanted to see America. I wanted to come home.&#8221; &#8212; Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
Practically everyone I know has tried [...]]]></description>
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