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		<title>The Circle of Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends! Sorry for the long delay between my last post and this one, honestly I have been swamped at &#8220;my day job&#8221; and I haven&#8217;t really had a ton of adoption news to share, but I have a little&#8230; A couple of weeks ago the Pastor from my old church called me. He works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touchdown Pensacola</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of funny, but there are things I remember with perfect clarity from my first phone call with Leah and there are things I feel like I didn&#8217;t hold on to tightly enough. I remember listening carefully to the way she talked, intrigued by her accent and overwhelmed by emotion. This was my Birthmother, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wait is Over&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really kind of funny that I aggressively jumped into the search for my birthmother, armed with a few names and a the place where I was born. My desire drove me fearlessly forward and as I mentioned before it wasn&#8217;t until I actually got David and then Nancy on the phone that anything other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Step Closer&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later that evening, after I had changed the message on my answering machine, Nancy called back. I explained to her, as I had explained to David, that I had reason to believe that Leah was my birthmother. However, awkward the experience with David had been it was completely undone by my conversation with Nancy. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption Rocks!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some time now I&#8217;ve had a reader named Amanda who has followed this blog &#8211; Hi! Amanda!, *waves.* Amanda is one of the many people who has written me emails of encouragement and left comments here and there. Well Amanda, sent me an email and asked me if I would speak at an event [...]]]></description>
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