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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Maitland</title>
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	<description>what passes as light</description>
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		<title>Snow Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one is happier about Portland&#8217;s record December snowfall finally melting than our Irvington neighborhood Gnome. There was more than enough white stuff to fill his tree-trunk abode, so I&#8217;m assuming people kept his doorway sufficiently cleared so he could maintain his perpetual southeasterly gaze from our block. At least the Gnome didn&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Day Humiliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newspaper photo published this week shows a &#8220;Leave It to Beaver&#8221; family posing next to a Christmas tree in 1956. The family includes a boy holding his new shotgun. Except for his well-coiffed hair and fancy bathrobe, the boy reminds me of what I might have looked like six years later when I turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Tooth 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tooth that played a key role in chewing more than 49,000 meals and countless snacks died today in Portland. The veteran molar was 45 years old. The death of Tooth 31 came after three weeks of intense medical treatment, including two root canals, antibiotics, and x-rays. &#8220;We did everything we could,&#8221; said a specialist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope and Haircuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two barbershops, fifty years and three thousand miles apart. At one I had my first haircut without a parent in tow. It was in Florida, and I was a young boy new to the South. The father and son proprietors were Alabama crackers. The only time they spoke more than a few words was when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better than dreaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that after death people live on in others&#8217; dreams. But I rarely dream about my mother, dead for five years. I much prefer how she materialized last month at my forty-year high school reunion in Winter Park, Florida. Several friends told me how much they liked my mother. Who could blame them? She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time capsule of what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made it halfway through a movie that uses my childhood home on a Central Florida lake as a main setting. One of my brother&#8217;s bought the DVD after I learned of the film and wrote about it. So far it&#8217;s like glancing around a museum I visited a long time ago, a familiar building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decades later, an answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took more than a half-century, but I finally learned why we ended up living on a lake in Central Florida during my childhood. Not one house but three as we moved clockwise around Lake Sybelia in Maitland from the late 1950s to 1970. At his eightieth birthday party a week ago, my father recounted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs back in the picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two dogs and water. Enough to bring to mind my dogs, not in a Portland fountain but following me forever ago as I race off a boathouse roof. A kid leaping toward a Florida lake below, the dogs airborne too. Sadie and Rogue followed my two brothers and me everywhere, including Lake Sybelia in Maitland. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holed up in memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big news about the definitive confirmation of water&#8217;s presence on Mars dispatches my mind not to the Red Planet but back in time. Back to a dark hole at the edge of a Florida orange grove. When we were kids growing up in Maitland, my two brothers and I dug down five feet through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate of memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m stealing a memory. It belongs to my youngest brother. The memory is about Gertrude, a row boat that Bill found submerged in our lake in Florida when we were kids. He and a friend somehow hauled her to shore, patched a hole in the bottom, and retrofitted her into a floating fort. When they [...]]]></description>
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