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	<title>Citizen of the Month</title>
	<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com</link>
	<description>Neil Kramer is a writer in Los Angeles (well, New York now).  Citizen of the Month is his blog.  Make yourself at home.</description>
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		<title>Cheeseburgers in Hospitals</title>
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Thanks to everyone who inquired or sent messages and prayers about my in-laws being in the hospital at the same time.  It was a very odd and tiring experience.  They are both home now.  That doesn&#8217;t mean that health rules the day for them, just that they aren&#8217;t at the hospital.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/03/18/cheeseburgers-in-hospitals/</link>
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		<title>The Two Towers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, I was sleeping at my friend&#8217;s house (that is another story, one in which I will avoid discussing at the moment), when I received the Bat signal.
Literally.
I programmed Sophia&#8217;s ringtone as the 1960&#8217;s Batman song, because lately her calls mean someone is in trouble.
&#8220;Vartan is back in the hospital,&#8221; she said.
I wouldn&#8217;t say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/03/15/the-two-towers/</link>
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		<title>After Birthday Check-Up</title>
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Every year, on the day after my birthday, I like to take stock of my life to make sure that everything is running as smoothly as a Swiss watch.
That&#8217;s why I made an appointment for this morning to see Doctor Teitelbaum, my family doctor.
&#8220;How&#8217;s it going with you and Sophia?&#8221; he asked as he took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/03/08/after-birthday-check-up/</link>
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		<title>Fifth Year Blogiversary of Citizen of the Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is my birthday.  It is also the fifth anniversary of my blog, as I started Citizen of the Month on March 7, 2005. 
While I enjoy my writing here, my greatest achievement with this blog is &#8212; getting to know you.  I am proud of the weird assortment of people that have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/03/07/fifth-year-blogiversary-of-citizen-of-the-month/</link>
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		<title>Dunbar&#8217;s Number</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the idea behind this Dunbar&#8217;s number is correct, what does this say about the way most of us deal with blogging, social media, community, social status, and online friendship?
(via Wikipedia &#8211;)
Dunbar&#8217;s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/03/04/dunbars-number/</link>
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		<title>My Current Situation, Clearly Explained</title>
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1)  Marriage.
2)  Career.
3)  Blogging.
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		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/03/01/my-current-situation-clearly-explained/</link>
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		<title>Need to Sleep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing on the iPhone is so personal.  I am in bed.  I am thinking about you, but I don&#8217;t know you.  I hold you in my hands as I type.  My thumb slides over and around your tender keys, hoping to create letters and words that please you, that connect us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/02/28/need-to-sleep/</link>
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		<title>Codependent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a little about codependency after an IM conversation with Juli Ryan, a blogger living in New Zealand, who was kind enough to say, &#8220;I think you might be co-dependent,&#8221; in that blunt manner that Kiwis are famous for, or at least I imagine them to be. 
How long can this status quo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/02/25/codependent/</link>
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		<title>Carpool Lane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am enjoying writing posts on my iPhone.  They tend to be short, snapshots of half-baked ideas, complete with amusing errors from the spell-checker, passages with no literary value. 
I am sitting in the waiting room of Sophia&#8217;s therapist, dragged along at the last minute as the live carpool dummy, so she could make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/02/23/carpool-lane/</link>
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		<title>Pile of Laundry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much can you tell about a person&#8217;s state of mind by seeing a pile of laundry?

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		<link>http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2010/02/23/pile-of-laundry/</link>
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