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		<title>Goodbye Teenage Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a sour feeling in my guts, and it eats me upwards until my throat feels raw with need and unvoiced desires. Love is as old as Father Death and as young as the cherubs that dance on the East Gate of Eden. It is as enduring as time and as fickle as nature, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=35&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flood Gate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at me brimming with all the unanswered questions, like a plugged sink, or an Olympic-sized pool left to the elements for two seasons. I read the papers and again I am angry – not quite – but then not satisfied. Still, I think, I am angry at the way my elders had mismanaged my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=34&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Human</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exploit the exploitable.  Was it just me, or do you find the statement offensive?  No, this is not the free market vs. socialism debate. But sometimes, it is disconcerting to see the difference between their values.  It reflects how far we are from reconciling the hurt and divisiveness, the accusations and the pain; a betrayal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=31&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Strings Attached</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title comes from an artwork of a friend, or a used-to-be-friend, depending on where you look. I cannot help but exclaim, in the frenzied silence of a library research room, and a girl or two looks at me. I could care less; reality is so loosely bound that I sometimes forget the endearing quality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=28&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promise Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: The better part of this post is copied from a mantra by Christian D. Larson, as published by Papemelroti.  It makes good reminder though, that is why I want to share it. ** Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.  To talk health, peace, happiness and prosperity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=26&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Going In And Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[flip flop journeys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been fifteen days &#8211; half a month, see &#8211; and I don&#8217;t feel as if I&#8217;d made progress at all. I have to sit up most nights to get a hang of the language. I was kind of expecting that two weeks would give me the conversational skills that I need. Blame it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=20&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The House That Greets Me</title>
		<link>http://meroe.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/the-house-that-greets-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[leaving home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What’s in a memory? A few loose cards that were never sent, some attachment to words never said, the poignancy and emptiness of emotions never shared. I was a little bit frightened at how easy everything melded out. I remember being apprehensive of finally going home, of bringing all the things I have gathered in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=21&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Tears for Erap</title>
		<link>http://meroe.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/no-tears-for-erap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To start off, no, I am not anti-Erap per se. One thing that saddens me is the way we sometimes reduce everything to black and white, either you are a pro or an anti, and being in the gray is hypocrisy. At any rate, I was having trouble finding a worthy opponent to debate (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=22&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cris Anthony Mendez</title>
		<link>http://meroe.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/cris-anthony-mendez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[fraternity violence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is perfectly normal to shed tears for a stranger, because circumstances make brothers of us all. These circumstances may include death, poverty, education. The fact that the man used to walk the same streets you do. The fact that you might have sat together on the same exam. The probability that you have met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=24&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://meroe.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not sacrifice what is important for what is immediate.  Or so they said.  Or so he said, the pastor in and orange shirt.  Just yesterday our professor asked us what we really wanted, and told us that maybe we should reflect.  Because if what we want is wealth, we are in the wrong discipline.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meroe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079549&amp;post=27&amp;subd=meroe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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