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		<title>Help save a child with HIV and Hep-C: help her family adopt her!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2012/04/great-big-giveaway-for-new-life-for.html Please click on the above link to read an incredible story about a family trying to adopt a little girl who is in dire need of medical care. Her parents have insurance to cover everything once she&#8217;s adopted, but need help coming up with $15,500 in the next two months. The fundraiser at this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/454</link>
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		<title>So much tithing angst!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again when we feel anxiety over our taxes, our tithing, and whether or not we should ever pay more than interest on our $41,000 in student loans. I read an interesting post here, where the writer was just asking about the morality of giving when one is in debt. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/446</link>
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		<title>7 Quick Takes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I took Wolfie to see a local children&#8217;s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He sat, expressionless for 45 minutes, spent 15 minutes asking if it was time to go home, and when it ended, immediately asked if we could &#8220;go again next time.&#8221; Loved the show, loved skipping school and work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/443</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a Child Running Around My Yard, Screaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best purchase we ever made was the chickens. Since their oddball arrival last April (Happy Birthday on the 18th!), they have offered Wolfie hours upon hours of entertainment. It&#8217;s like having a babysitter, who&#8217;s free and happens to love getting in nature time, regardless of the weather. I just went outside to find out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/439</link>
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		<title>Save Money on Hand Soap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We used to go through about 10 oz. of handsoap a week, if we&#8217;re using the regular, non-foaming kind. I buy the giant 64 oz. bottles of it and refill our dispensers. So, ignoring our initial cost of 2 bottles on sale for $1 each, and knowing that the giant bottle costs me $4 at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/435</link>
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		<title>Lent + Nostalgia= Abnormally Satisfying Easter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I got home from Easter dinner and was devastated. It had been one of those dreadful family parties where I drifted through, feeling ignored by everybody. This year: no worries. I had a good time and enjoyed chatting with people. A few things were different. 1.) I have a newborn. That makes me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/430</link>
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		<title>Shunning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a cousin who has left the Catholic priesthood and gotten married civilly, has two children, and works as a civil servant. He refuses to have anything to do with my family because some people expressed concern that he should at least get laisized. He sent my sister a horrible email, instructing her to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/427</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Victim Here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be clear, I think it&#8217;s marvelous that people, even feminist-types, are talking about female fertility and &#8220;waiting too long.&#8221; It seems that it&#8217;s not so politically incorrect to mention that fertility wanes and not everybody can get pregnant with fertility treatments. That&#8217;s good in that maybe some younger women will feel more comfortable choosing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/421</link>
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		<title>How Buying a Minivan is Like Dating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law loves this. After five years of her telling me how great her minivan is, and me telling her that I would rather die than drive a van, and that a little piece of my soul would die every time I turned the ignition (despite knowing that I wanted a large family), I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/414</link>
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		<title>Bi-polar Parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wolfie has turned another corner, and I can now bear to be in the same room as him for more than ten minutes. We&#8217;re back to sweetness, silliness, and a beautiful lack of raging tantrums. It seems like he comes into a good space just as I&#8217;m about to put him up for adoption. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersto.us/archives/407</link>
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