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	<title>Staying abreast of things</title>
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	<description>One survivor's thoughts on things serious and humorous; breast cancer, pomeranians, marriage, psychotherapy, faith, and MORE.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Confessons of a political nebbish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not very political. I grew up rabidly hating Nixon because my parents did. In the 60s I hated Johnson because it was the 60s and I was in college. I rooted for McCarthy and mocked Bobby Kennedy until I watched him get assassinated on TV. Then my friends and I wept for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting with breast cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer awareness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DIEP flap procedure]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[reconstructive surgery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[support]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three Christmases ago I learned I had breast cancer for the second time, and for the second time my life was spared because of early detection.  Even though I lost both breasts and endured 18 months of hell, I emerged healthier in body and spirit, and now I gladly devote myself to supporting people whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cancer gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamie's breast cancer story]]></category>

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Did I tell you that I got a tattoo around my reconstructed navel?  And a jeweled piercing?  My son plugs his ears and yells, &#8220;LALALALA!&#8221; until I cover it up, and my husband just rolls his eyes (I am 61) but I have a flat tummy, thanks to breast cancer, so why not?
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		<title>Celebration of healing poem</title>
		<link>http://stayingabreastofthings.thepinkword.com/2008/12/15/12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamie's breast cancer story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend wrote this poem for me to commemorate the end of my healing journey. She gave it to me on the anniversary of my mastectomies with a scalpel, and told me that when the time was right I could throw the scalpel away.  That day was yesterday, and here is what she wrote.
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