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    • 30 Ratings
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    Is renting the new 'American Dream?'

    OCTOBER 6, 2010 4:03PM

    By Kat Hudson


    Topics: bankruptcy, mortgage, freedom, jobless, unemployment, living, home ownership, renters, renting, housing, baltimore, kat hudson

    • 38 Ratings
    • 3120 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    The Battered Boy Who Found His Identity by Reading Books

    AUGUST 4, 2009 1:39PM

    By Rev. Dr. Monte Canfield


    Topics: battered children, protection, reading, living, growing, freedom in books, slough, san diego, national city, growing up, dysfunctional family

    • 26 Ratings
    • 3018 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    The Three Diamonds

    AUGUST 25, 2009 9:24AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: travel, health, belief/religion, fictioning, longing, finding, living, imagining, environment, fashion, memoral structures

    • 48 Ratings
    • 2441 Views
    • 72 Comments
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    The 3rd Circle of Plastic Hell

    JULY 26, 2009 10:23AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: gay/lesbian, design, fictioning, longing, finding, redemption, salvation, abuse, living, non-living, imagining, neglect, environment, fashion, hell, paradise, art, compassion, salvation of the synthetic

    • 17 Ratings
    • 2389 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    The Bible

    JULY 13, 2009 7:06AM

    By Rev. Dr. Monte Canfield


    Topics: savior, jesus christ, jesus, emmanuel, cross, dying, death, living, life, creatures, teaching, hellfire and brimstone, feel good religion, timothy, paul, scripture, god, truth, self interest, abuses of the bible, other religions, jews, christians, religion, faith, chrisitanity, the bible

    • 0 Ratings
    • 2146 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Magnetic Appeal that Living in Auburn, CA Provides

    JUNE 23, 2010 2:05PM

    By Jeff Murray


    Topics: living, real estate, california, auburn

    • 51 Ratings
    • 2125 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    Suicide- The Failsafe

    JUNE 6, 2012 6:56PM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: mistakes, living, death, jumpers, mental-health, golden-gate-bridge, suicide, depression

    • 57 Ratings
    • 1955 Views
    • 80 Comments
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    From the Ashes of Violence

    JUNE 5, 2010 5:50PM

    By Sparking


    Topics: the love is the light, the silver lining of torture, suffering, hard won wisdom, living, life, love, dying, death, angels, open call, family, belief/religion

    • 15 Ratings
    • 1796 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    When Your Child Joins The Military

    MARCH 7, 2011 9:04AM

    By Lunchlady 2


    Topics: choices, life, fear, growing up, living, learning, loving

    • Editor's Pick
    • 61 Ratings
    • 1753 Views
    • 85 Comments
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    Life's Work

    SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 7:18PM

    By Owl_Says_Who


    Topics: the answer is and always will be 42, what is it all anyway, does it matter what it all means, what does it all add up to, living, writing, calling, work/life balance, work, lifes work, pets, gay/lesbian, family

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1670 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    The Joy of Living: Lessons from my 99 year-old granny Midge

    OCTOBER 22, 2009 10:33PM

    By Just Me


    Topics: family, wisdom, grandmother, cooking, love, life, living, caring, religion, spirituality, food/drink, health, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1655 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    For Karen Novak--with update

    FEBRUARY 5, 2009 6:51PM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: health, books, living, dying, birthdays, cancer, community, friendship

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1622 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Dr. says, There's Good News & Bad News.

    JULY 30, 2010 3:46PM

    By Graham Sale


    Topics: medicine, medical prognosis, existential, existentialism, living, dying, graham sale, humor, cartoons, recovery, symptoms

    • 16 Ratings
    • 1546 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Anybody Here Seen MY OLD FRIEND, MARTIN

    AUGUST 11, 2010 8:59AM

    By Rod Emmons


    Topics: sad, happy, dying, living, tales, humor, memory

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1531 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Goodbye Sweet Man

    DECEMBER 31, 2008 2:32PM

    By Harry Knapp


    Topics: dying, living, professor randy pausch, randy pausch, the last lecture

    • 55 Ratings
    • 1464 Views
    • 94 Comments
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    I AM A WRITER. RIGHT?

    NOVEMBER 17, 2010 4:09PM

    By Susan Creamer Joy


    Topics: writing, not writing, living, not writing, writing, not living, dreaming, writing, not dreaming, dying, writing, thriving

    • 6 Ratings
    • 1393 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    In Defense Of Age

    DECEMBER 13, 2008 7:45PM

    By Gail Walter


    Topics: menopause, hormones, hot flashes, aging, age, joy, life, living, self, realization

    • 31 Ratings
    • 1176 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    Thoughts on Writing About My Travels

    AUGUST 4, 2010 1:12PM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: open+call, life, living, sensitivity, hardships, travel, glass half full

    • 25 Ratings
    • 1165 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Living, Loving, Fear and Dying

    AUGUST 30, 2009 5:33AM

    By Stephen McGuire


    Topics: living, loving, fear, dying, john fowles, edgar allan poe, bells, progressive, conservative, devour, beast

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1129 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Outcast: When Children Die

    FEBRUARY 27, 2012 8:38AM

    By Lunchlady 2


    Topics: death of children, life, love, family, loss, living, moving along, empty

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