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		<title>&#8230;pursuit&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8230;catharsis&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...It's classic survivor's guilt. It's the kind of thing, if I heard me saying these words, would respond, "Don't think that!" My brain, my big-ass brain, knows all of those things. I know them. But someone, anyone, please tell that to my heart ... my big-ass heart...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikiconrad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8374785&amp;post=726&amp;subd=nikiconrad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;breathe&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8230;brave&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Remember, Remember the Fifth of November</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember, remember the Fifth of November &#8230; was the day Doc Brown slipped and hit his head on his bathroom sink while standing on a toilet to hang a clock and, as a result, invented the flux capacitor, which, as we all now know, is what makes time-travel possible.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikiconrad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8374785&amp;post=715&amp;subd=nikiconrad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordle.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Wiggle Butt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Spirit Airlines ♥ The Broke-Ass Bride</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otherwise known as: Seriously?! Never fly Spirit Airlines. My friend &#38; co-worker, Josh, alerted me to this story, written (&#38; experienced) by a friend of his. The first portion was enough to raise eyebrows, but it only got worse from there. And by worse, I mean HOLY EFFING SHIT I HAVE MY ENRAGED PANTS ON [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikiconrad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8374785&amp;post=706&amp;subd=nikiconrad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Felt &#8230; Nothing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a dream in which I was the planner for my ex-boyfriend&#8217;s wedding. Which was held in a cemetery (telling!).  But beautiful. He looked great. His bride was lovely. Lemme tell ya &#8230; I did a great freaking job! The most interesting part in all of it? The song that I woke up singing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikiconrad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8374785&amp;post=701&amp;subd=nikiconrad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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