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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part IX</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is This, Really?
New Year’s came and went. Claire invited me to a party with some friends of hers. I was nervous. It seemed like a big deal. I kind of assumed there’d be drinking or the like. So I showed up, thinking big things were afoot, but her parents were there. We played board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part VIII</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School
I couldn’t decide what movie to take Claire to so I asked Dad and Ms. Sandee.
“Take her to a scary one,” Dad said. “Like Hitchcock. She’ll get all agitated and hug up on you to protect her. And if it’s scary enough, she’ll
be afraid to look at the screen, and she’ll just want to kiss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part VII</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Betsy’s death, Ms. Sandee wanted me to stop working, but Dad said it would make me all sullen and strange, so I kept mowing yards for the last few weeks of summer, only Dad or Ms. Sandee would drop me off and pick me up.]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part VI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a recurring dream for years. I’m wearing a tuxedo, and I step onto an elevator and fall perfectly in love with a beautiful woman I’ve never met before.]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part V</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betsy also had a decent collection of books, and she would send me home with one every couple days and quiz me about them like I was in English class.]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[4. Call me Betsy
I was learning more than I’d ever learned in school—she taught me how to cook, not just how to use a stove and follow recipes, but how to use spices and jazz things up. She never ate what she cooked, though. Sometimes, she’d plop a plate in front of me and watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father was a big believer in cottage industry, so while other kids spent their summers gorging on Twinkies in front of flashing TV screens as they played video games, or watching the girls in their bikinis at the beach, I pushed a cheap lawnmower up overgrown hills.]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignoring Dad must’ve done something to his masculine ego, because only a couple weeks after Ms. Sandee stopped pushing herself on Dad, he started paying a lot more attention to her.]]></description>
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		<title>River City Blues &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom died when I was eight. We were close when she was alive, or so people tell me, but I barely remember her. I was raised by my dad, a gruff factory worker, the kind of guy who changed his own oil and thought just about anything could be fixed by hard work and exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Burial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CL Bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  It hit Jane the hardest when the cat died. It was on a Friday, luckily, giving her the weekend to grieve.]]></description>
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