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	<title>Stronger Than I Look</title>
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	<description>Celebrating the peaks and valleys of life.</description>
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		<title>National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was wearing a pink turtleneck and tan pants on the day that my world was ripped out from under me.
It was February 19, 2004. A Thursday. I was at work doing what I like to call &#8220;employee relations&#8221;, which was really just a lengthy run of &#8220;cube-hopping&#8221; to chat with my co-workers (one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I held my inconsolable son in my arms as he wept. We were in his room on his bed surrounded by Mario Brothers posters and other things the average nine-year-old boy might have in his room.
An average nine-year-old boy. That&#8217;s all he wants to be.
Before the meltdown, Madeline and I were in the bedroom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=429</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s &#8220;Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bet you didn&#8217;t know this but today is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which means it&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day in China! And being the seventh day of the seventh lunar month makes me want to break out in song. I think you&#8217;ll like it. Ready? Here goes: &#8220;When the moooooon is in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Give it all you got&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben revealed a new skill this week during antibody therapy: he&#8217;s a natural coach. We heard phrases like &#8220;Is that all you got?&#8221; and &#8220;Give me more!&#8221; when he was giving us direction on how to alleviate the pain. Like I had mentioned in prior posts, his pain tends to be focused in the abdomen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=421</link>
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		<title>Eating cheese and hanging on&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ate two slices of Kraft American Cheese and am considering having one more but that would require me to get up and go downstairs to retrieve another piece from the refrigerator. Plus, on my journey to the fridge, I would want to check on the mouse that our cat, Cricket, brought up to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=416</link>
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		<title>Two good guys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben and I got back from New York late Saturday evening. It had been a very long and arduous week of antibody therapy so we were both beyond exhausted. Nothing more than sleep was on our immediate agenda.
Sunday morning, Matt loaded up the canoe while the rest of us slept like a bag of rocks. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=413</link>
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		<title>No National Holiday scheduled today&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not feeling overly clever today so nothing is coming to mind as to what I should write about. Hmmm. Let&#8217;s look through my &#8220;files&#8221; and see what we have. Ben is always a sturdy topic. My childhood has always proven to be a treasure trove of crazy antics. And my mind goes at warp [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=411</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s &#8220;Cow Appreciation Day&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been born in North Carolina I am not a true native of Central Ohio, but since I spent the majority of my formative years 22 miles east of Ohio&#8217;s Capital, I know a bit about cows. The family of one of my very best friends in grade school ran a dairy farm. I experienced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=409</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s only the second day of antibody therapy and already my brain is complete Jello. When I turn my head I can actually feel the gelatinous mass quiver inside my cranial cavity. I wonder if my Jello-brain is a pretty, decorative molded shape or perhaps a delicious flavor? Doubtful. It&#8217;s more likely that my Jello-brain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=405</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s &#8220;Pecan Pie&#8221; Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I despise nearly every sort of pie with the exception of pecan. Pecan pie is deeee-licious. I think it also has the highest caloric content as far as pie goes and that (more than likely) contributes to my interest in this particular flavor. And I&#8217;ve always wondered about the pronunciation of &#8220;pecan&#8221;. Is it proper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strongerthanilook.com/?p=403</link>
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