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	<description>&#34;Maybe all we can hope to do is end up with the right regrets.&#34;</description>
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		<title>Endings, beginnings, elusive middles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[It's not a regret, it's an "experience"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like I should have more to say about the end of middle school, but I&#8217;ve been a little too verklempt to manage it. [Talk amongst yourselves! Here, I'll give you a topic: Attendance awards; universally annoying or only to bitter parents of chronically ill children who feel like other kids getting medals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looks like we made it&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out there&#8217;s nothing quite like living the one-day-at-a-time-at-the-hospital life to make you REALLY excited about middle school graduation. Part of me still can&#8217;t believe this almost didn&#8217;t happen, and the other part is afraid to breathe, just in case I&#8217;m asleep. Today is a good day.]]></description>
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		<title>More of the same</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/05/07/more-of-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health is overrated]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's not a regret, it's an "experience"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lamented to Otto this morning that &#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to write about!&#8221; Otto&#8212;deeply embroiled in the home stretch of grading and finishing up the semester&#8212;gave me several suggestions of guffaw-worthy student gaffes, none of which I&#8217;m actually going to share. That&#8217;s mostly because they&#8217;re not my stories, but also because I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well that&#8217;s&#8230; interesting</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/05/02/well-thats-interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aspi(e)rations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a youngest child. I grew up forever feeling persecuted that my brother got to&#8230; stay up later/go places I wasn&#8217;t allowed/watch movies that were forbidden/fill in the blank with any other life-or-death-desirable activity in a kid&#8217;s mind. I never saw him with more responsibilities than I had&#8212;therefore earning those special privileges&#8212;though that, too, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick tidbit (quibit? tidbick?)</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/30/a-quick-tidbit-quibit-tidbick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Detritus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am spending my entire day either in the car, waiting rooms, or too-cold doctors&#8217; offices, which I guess I will tell you more about eventually, but there isn&#8217;t time right now, so I won&#8217;t. (Also, I am rather over the whole scene right now, and would like to go home and crawl under my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>My favorite child</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/28/my-favorite-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oh look! Something furry!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ottomatic For the People]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that school is finished for the year here in just a few weeks? (And before the usual slew of &#8220;No fair! You get out so early!&#8221; comments that this usually brings, allow me to point out that the kids went back to school the first week of August. They&#8217;ve had a whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have to believe</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/18/i-have-to-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to believe that when we look back&#8212;years from now&#8212;we will laugh. I have to believe we WILL look back, together, you still you and me still me and the two of us still a we that makes sense and makes us laugh until we gasp for air, until we can no longer remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mir just became the Mayor of Meansville!</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/17/mir-just-became-the-mayor-of-meansville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haven't been hit by lightning yet!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, so I&#8217;m going to redirect you to Off Our Chests, this time to confirm what you already knew&#8212;I&#8217;m a jerk. I&#8217;m mean! All of the other parents are cooler than I am! [Aside: Chickadee has one friend who thinks I'm awesome. I have no idea where she got this idea, but I'm not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Strawberries fix (almost) everything</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/13/strawberries-fix-almost-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aspi(e)rations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health is overrated]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, let&#8217;s talk about the kid who still likes me! So I may have mentioned that we suspected Monkey had another sinus infection. It was a kind of deja vu to last year&#8217;s pre-surgical carnival of Angry Monkey; his behavior has been steadily deteriorating for a month, and all the while he insists he feels [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>A revised Serenity Prayer</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/12/a-revised-serenity-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/04/12/a-revised-serenity-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My name is Grumplestiltskin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This one goes out to all of my fellow parents of teenagers, with love and respect. God, grant me the serenity to accept that the only difference between teens and psychopaths is that most teens eventually change, The courage to smile around gritted teeth and ground the offender, And the wisdom not to smother anyone [...]]]></description>
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