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		<title>The things that matter</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2011/11/15/the-things-that-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being (Com)Passionate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Spike Jonze took the stage at last year’s International Advertising Festival in Cannes, I was really excited to hear some advice from a creative superhero. But when he started talking, it was immediately obvious that he was uncomfortable. The confident man I'd imagined looked like a deer in headlights, all wide-eyed and frozen, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well said</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2011/07/10/well-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. So I keep trying gently to bring my mind back to what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty seven love letters</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2011/06/29/twenty-seven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being Rejected]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an old friend took me to dinner for my 27th birthday. On the way back from the restaurant we saw a man (presumably homeless) in a wheelchair who wasn’t strong enough to push himself up the small incline from street to sidewalk. He hung there on the edge and called out for help as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did I fuckin&#8217; stutter?</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2011/06/09/did-i-fucking-stutter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chumasero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[go easy on me]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love you.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2011/06/06/thinking-52/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Masochist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being An Idiot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes bad decisions are way, way too much fun.]]></description>
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		<title>Say what?</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2011/04/12/say-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Fool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Masochist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it goes like this: I moved to San Francisco, lost one of my closest confidants to shitty circumstance, got a promotion complete with an actual office to go to, went home with a stranger, slept with a friend, herbed with my personal guidance counselor and, most recently, was forced to evaluate my life on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll just have to start over</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2010/10/21/well-just-have-to-start-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(xoxo)]]></description>
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		<title>Kiss kiss, bang bang</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2010/08/08/kiss-kiss-bang-bang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I see a vision of Mother Mary riding a unicorn? No, but maybe I would have if we'd had more than a few minutes of make out time.]]></description>
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		<title>Love After Love</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2009/12/21/love-after-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are lucky&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://girlsarestrange.com/2009/12/13/we-are-lucky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Being A Foreigner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Being A Lover]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomoyo, my old roommate, occasional savior, and most importantly my friend, took me out for a weekend of sightseeing during the Japan sojourn. First we traveled by bullet train to her hometown of Nagahama where we stayed with her family for a night. Their house is traditional; full of dark wood, tatami mats and doors [...]]]></description>
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