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	<title>The Art of Lawn Care</title>
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		<title>A Post In Which I Wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I put a message in a bottle and put that bottle in the ocean.  It said, Hear me, Forgive me, Promise me, Love me. And today I sit on the (metaphorical) beach and wait for a reply.  And while I wait, I can’t help but think the answer might not come, because what have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things My Mother Taught Me, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every woman needs to have at least one daughter so when she gets a little older and maybe starts to grow some unfortunate hairs on her face she has someone to point them out and make sure they are removed.  If you ever see a middle aged woman walking around with whiskers on her chin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snap, Crackle, Brulee!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I was bored, and as we all know, bored Melissa + kitchen full of food = who knows!  Sometimes it&#8217;s great, sometimes it&#8217;s a disaster, mostly it&#8217;s just okay.  But this weekend I made something I really like.  It&#8217;s very simple, but sometimes simple is the way to go.  I&#8217;ve never put a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=295</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Night Therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I keep accidentally reading books about marriages ending badly. This leads me to ask my husband unfortunate questions, like whether he would prefer to divorce me or shoot me and then throw my body in the Great Salt Lake. Obviously this is crazy on so many levels. But seriously, how ironic would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=268</link>
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		<title>Only Funny in Text</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest, I&#8217;m way funnier by text than I am in real life.  Examples: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Husband:  Sorry I missed your phone call, I was up a tree with a chainsaw. Me:  Either that is true, and you have a whole life as a logger that I know nothing about, or that’s an excuse so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things My Mother Taught Me, Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another girl having cute hair will not diminish the cuteness of your hair. For more words of wisdom from my fabulous mother, visit her new blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=264</link>
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		<title>The Luckiest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My darling husband’s birthday is this weekend. I’m posting this a little early because I’m running off to Quilt Retreat and leaving him all alone. I feel awful about it, but what can I do? Maybe if his parents had planned a little better 26 years ago we wouldn’t have this problem. A few months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=253</link>
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		<title>For the Record&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am here. I didn’t mean to go away for so long, at first it was just a brief, self-imposed sabbatical because I was having a quilting emergency, so I couldn’t do anything but sew and cry for several days. And then I got a wicked headache (from the sewing and the crying), and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=249</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a sad day for all of us.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am aghast.  Read this article so we can all be aghast together. Pint-Sized Recession]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=245</link>
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		<title>Daylight Savings, 9 AM Church, and a Forgetful Husband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the sentence that every woman longs to hear from her husband Sunday morning at 8:55. “Um, are you going to be ready in the next, like, minute? Because we’re supposed to pray in Sacrament Meeting.” Oh, great. There’s nothing like one minute’s warning to make sure I’m on time for church. “What do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thetorontos.org/melissa/?p=235</link>
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