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            <title>I love doing these things...</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:21:23 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     Yeah it&#39;s been a while so I thought I would do this over here. yee haw.  Directions: 1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle   2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.     3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME D...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>QotD: Life is Short</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:03:13 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>      If you had to write your autobiography in 6 words, what would you write? Submitted by mitzie.     Frequently disappointed yet still hopefully optimistic       &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>QotD: I Went To Great Measures</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:29:52 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>      What was the one thing that you wanted badly that made you do something ridiculous?  Submitted by estell.  There&#39;s always the getting the boy shennanigans.... but I&#39;m pleading the 5th as far as revealing the &quot;ridiculous measures&quot;        &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt;    
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            <title>QotD: My Holiday Traditions</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:42:46 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>      Tell us about your holiday traditions.  Submitted by Talk is Cheap.  Well with my family it was always Thanksgiving with my Dad&#39;s family and then Christmas with my Mom&#39;s family. It&#39;s always been that way.  Christmas Eve dinner involved a baked ha...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt;    
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:09:27 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     Okay so I signed up for Holidailies... but then I lost my password for the portal.  I&#39;m S-M-R-T     &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:29:47 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>      What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up  like a raisin in the sun?  Or fester like a sore--  And then run?  Does it stink like rotten meat?  Or crust and sugar over--  like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags  like a heavy load. Or does i...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:36:08 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>         This is Barak Obama at this rally at the Arkansas State capital.  Okay I just realized from the date that this was late 2006 but I&#39;m keeping it.     This is an abandoned house near Tucker prison.  Of course, I have no idea whose house it is or...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:20:22 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     Sometimes I find that despite my protestations to the contrary that I do crave and adore attention.  I obviously couldn&#39;t have been a performer for as long as I was without that craving. It gets a little spotty in the realm of personal relations. ...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Melissa&#39;s favorite things..... gift giving and other ideas....</title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:07:14 -0800</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     One of my most fondest memories of my high school sweetheart is his amazing ability to give me gifts that I absolutely adored.  It wasn&#39;t that they were necessarily expensive or extravagant.  It was that it was always something I really wanted.  T...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:40:01 -0800</pubDate>         
            
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        Yes I have decided to give Holidailies a shot.     I can&#39;t believe it&#39;s December already.  This year has flown by.  On January 1 of this year, my grandfather died after battling Alzheimer&#39;s for almost ten years.  It was a peaceful bittersweet ...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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