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		<title>He Loved Romance, Rabbits, and Old Movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moved to San Francisco in 1997, having missed out on the age of disco and the worst of the epidemic. I have friends who were here then – they tell me about everyone disappearing. Twenty years on I wonder about the long-term effects of living in a subculture and losing half your friends in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jan Fails to Make the Pom-Pom Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(With apologies to TV.com)
Marcia is distraught after getting braces and becomes convinced she&#8217;s ugly. This leads to Greg dressing a whole new way and talking a whole new way, including calling his parents by their first names. However, an overconfident Bobby doesn&#8217;t study at all and fails while Cindy is chosen and her ego alienates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Brother Calls Me Late at Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1981 my parents split up, and within a year they both came out of the closet. I was ten, my brother five. He&#8217;d turn out to be the only straight one among us. Like all families we had other dynamics at work beyond sexuality, which pushed him off to the side, where he grew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of the Human Spirit Can Bite Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The publishing industry moves at glacial speed. So while I wait the requisite four to eight weeks for agents to lay judgment on my work, I have more than a few hours on my hands, hours in which I have to point my obsessive nature in some direction. It&#8217;s best when I can get it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Life in the D League</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A break up is like a mid-life crisis. You come out of it, look around, take stock. You buy hair plugs or find yourself doing things you&#8217;ve never done before – like joining a gay softball team. The Fireplug and I had been homebodies, and after we called it quits I found myself with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Not Bitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may have been recently single on Valentine&#8217;s Day, but that will not deter me from passing along to my coupled readers opportunities like the following, where you could assist the academic community in figuring out what makes your love tick.  The researcher emailed and asked if I would share this, and who am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dogpoet.com/blog/archives/1027</link>
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		<title>Articulate Declarations of Something or Another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received the following touching email yesterday:
Hi, dear
Think of me always and dream of me often I am here heartsinadore.net/waityou/
You don&#8217;t know how much I really do miss you. I&#8217;ve opened up a door for love I thought I locked a long time ago. You are always in my heart and on my mind. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dogpoet.com/blog/archives/1022</link>
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		<title>Waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So January pretty much sucked. That&#8217;s as articulate as I can be on the subject. I don&#8217;t know why I was surprised at how tough that month turned out, considering recent heartbreak. But surprised I was, and while nursing a mildly annoying cold I logged more hours on Playstation 3 than I&#8217;d care to admit. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dogpoet.com/blog/archives/1019</link>
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		<title>Crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been a little quiet around here lately. I started this blog over nine years ago, and I only seem to grow less inclined to share my every thought with the internet as the years go by. Whether this is due to getting older, or due to all the work I&#8217;ve poured into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dogpoet.com/blog/archives/1009</link>
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		<title>My Roomate Likes to Dress Up My Dog</title>
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