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		<title>Not A Victim Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>To Follow My Story Chronologically</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who might find it easier to follow my story chronologically, I have provided the links–in order–on the page titled My Story-In Order. The links will open in another tab/window so you won’t be taken from that page and can continue clicking the links as needed. Hope this helps!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=313&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All By Myself&#8211;Final Chapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been fired 2 months when I received a call from my Sis. Mom had fallen a few times in the past few months. She was not seriously injured but bruised pretty badly this last time. Sis said Mom really needed someone to stay with her and help her out. Would I consider moving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=309&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All By Myself&#8211;Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year ago, a new Director was hired to be in charge of all staff at the Retirement Home. Jamie was a perky little thing with dark hair and freckles spattered all over her face. She was 24 years old but looked 15. When she first hired on, she seemed so friendly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=305&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All By Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took me about 2 months to find another job. There was a Retirement/Assisted Living home about a mile from my daughter’s. I hired on as a full-time dining room server. I loved, loved, LOVED this job! Within the first month I knew all 75 resident’s by their first names and learned their last names [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=302&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After living for 8 years in the middle of the woods, I experienced quite a bit of culture shock when I left the woods and flew to my daughter’s to live. Her family lived in a mid-size Midwest town and it was full of  NOISE. Traffic, lots of people, children, all boisterous sounds of daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=298&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Donate to help Domestic Violence Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allbymyself09</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought a new cell phone and wondered what to do with my old one. No one in the family needed it so I searched online and found 2 places where you can donate your cell phone to be used for domestic violence victims at various shelters across the country. So, that’s what I’m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=295&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day finally arrived for my escape. I had everything boxed and shipped to my daughter’s. I had my one-way plane ticket to Indiana. I would drive Carol’s truck to the airport, her daughter and grandson would pick it up this evening at the airport parking lot. I was scared to death. I decided to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=291&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uninvited Visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 6 months that I lived at Carol’s, Rick would stop by a couple times a week on his way home from work. If he was sober, he asked if I needed anything or needed anything fixed, or wood chopped. I always told him ‘No’. I wanted to remain independent of him. I didn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=288&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign In Please</title>
		<link>http://allbymyself09.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/sign-in-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allbymyself09</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my girls were in grade school, there was a deaf girl in their class. She attended with her interpreter. The girls were fascinated by the sign language they used and wanted to learn it so they could communicate with her. I have always been an avid user of the local library. We went there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allbymyself09.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5992681&amp;post=281&amp;subd=allbymyself09&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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