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		<title>Please Help Find Nichole</title>
		<link>http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/18/please-help-find-nichole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Guapola: The Web is a wonderful tool to help people. Please reblog this and spread Nichole's face around WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, etc. She could be anybody's sister, daughter, friend.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4117&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s What&#8217;s For Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who once worked for a United Nations organization (The World Health Organization), I’ve often been frustrated at the lack of respect that the U.N. receives, especially here in the U.S.  I mean the U.N.’s mission, as stated in &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/14/its-whats-for-dinner/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4104&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Have Some Privacy, Please?</title>
		<link>http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/13/can-you-have-some-privacy-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ll have to forgive the ironic setting of this story, given the topic.  But it happened just this way.  Really.  Would I lie to you?  I mean if no money was involved? *     *     * Today I was by myself &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/13/can-you-have-some-privacy-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4093&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untarnished</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how old we are, when we&#8217;re sick we want Mom.  When we hurt physically, that&#8217;s who we call out for.  When we have been wounded emotionally, we want her more than anything. Several of my bloggin&#8217; buddies asked &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/10/untarnished/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4088&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boots on the Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I got quite a surprise. I was going through emails listing all of my new faux followers when I found what looked like it might just possibly be that there was a real person with a real blog who &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/08/boots-on-the-ground/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4083&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Test Your Co-Workers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 01:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s sometimes hard to take a story that is so shocking and make it more interesting.  More exciting.  More absurd. I tried.  I’ve been working on this post all evening.  But nope.  I just can’t top the lunacy of the &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/05/01/test-your-co-workers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4076&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The List You Need to Write a Memoir</title>
		<link>http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/04/25/the-list-you-need-to-write-a-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Writer Site: I started working on my memoir an embarrassingly long time ago. When I started I thought I knew what a memoir was--after all, I'd read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It's the story of &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/04/25/the-list-you-need-to-write-a-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4072&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day/Birthday &#8212; The Recycled Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, April 22, is Earth Day!  It’s the 43nd Anniversary of the very first Earth Day.  Here for Angie of Childhood Relived (because I am her primary new source) is Walter Cronkite’s report on the first Earth Day, 1970: It would &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/04/22/earth-daybirthday-the-recycled-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4067&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now Why Didn&#8217;t I Think of That?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s kind of late in the game for me.  My son is in college.  He drives.  He Facebooks. He’s beyond my control. So I am really upset that I didn’t get this vital piece of parenting advice from Senator Mike &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/04/18/now-why-didnt-i-think-of-that/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4062&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Job Security for Cowards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How important is your job to you?  What would you do to keep it? What would you be willing to sacrifice to keep it?  Who would you be willing to sacrifice to keep your job? Would you be willing to &#8230; <a href="http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2013/04/17/job-security-for-cowards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyfourandahalf.com&#038;blog=23593288&#038;post=4051&#038;subd=fiftyfourandahalf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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