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	<title>the WingDangDoo &#187; hope</title>
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		<title>wing dang done</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2010/06/wing-dang-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends,

It was an honor to represent you this morning in Swim Across America&#8217;s 1.5 mile swim from Greenwich to Stamford. Your generosity made me one of the top 5 &#8220;earners&#8221; for this event. We raised more than $6,500 for cancer gene therapy research, or more than 2% of the total of $300,000 in contributions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>solstice</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2010/06/solstice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The water was like glass, merging with the gentle fog over Long Island Sound at 7 am. As I struggled to put on my new wetsuit, I said hellos and traded swim stories with new friends. We were together in preparation for next Saturday&#8217;s Swim Across America event, and we were all anxious to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>humbled</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2010/05/humbled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 15:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d do something I love (swim) to stamp out something I hate (cancer). Grief into action.
So I signed up for the Swim Across America swim from Greenwich to Stamford on June 26. It benefits the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, a Stamford based foundation that funds national grants for cell and gene therapy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>april 21, 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2010/04/april-21-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure the words will come pouring out. In time.
Until then, here&#8217;s a sad postscript to my sister&#8217;s story, as told through my words.
She died on Wednesday, with Paul and me by her side. She knew how much we loved her. And she wasn&#8217;t in pain.
I miss her. Already.
]]></description>
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		<title>solace. absurdity.</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2010/04/solace-absurdit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[#49]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ur doin it wrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whining]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Absurdity catches me by the tail and spins me around. I feel my burdens slip away as I look into its silly, kind eyes.
We now have tides in our basement. High tide likes to sneak up on us, jumping out from behind a tree and screaming &#8220;BOO! Gotcha!&#8221; Low tide takes its time, stopping for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>grace</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/10/grace-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/10/grace-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labradiculous]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the zoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>

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Healthy children.
Healthy, happy children.
The means to care for an ailing dog.
A job. With benefits. Interesting work.
A computer.
A wam cat next to me, hunkering close and losing his shit (like the rest of the pack) because their canine leader is hospitalized.
New underwear!
A sport I love. An obsession (weight lifting) that&#8217;s actually healthy.
Swimming. At all. Regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>there&#8217;s nothing uncool about curing juvenile myositis</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/10/theres-nothing-uncool-about-curing-juvenile-myositis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/10/theres-nothing-uncool-about-curing-juvenile-myositis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes something extraordinary to make a friend who lives just a few miles away.

In my case, it was starting a blog.

The WingDangDoo is one of about a hundred blogs featuring this post today. Yes, a hundred. My friend Kevin of Always Home and Uncool wrote this post to raise awareness in the blogosphere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>august 10 1966 4:10 pm</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/08/august-10-1966-410-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/08/august-10-1966-410-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer was almost always the same: lasagna. Angel food cake with fudge icing.
Except for those dark, early years when I seemed to favor layer cake with lemon (ewww!) filling and buttercream frosting.
She would always make me whatever I wanted on my birthday.
I&#8217;d been imagining yesterday off and on for months, never fully wanting to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>smiling</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/07/smiling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/07/smiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
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Look at the smile on that face. Hell, he&#8217;s got a cat right next to him and he&#8217;s still smiling. I&#8217;ve never seen a happier cancer-laden, arthritic 13 1/2 year old dog. Have you?
I think I told you (both of you?) my goodest good boy has cancer. But to verify, I&#8217;d have to go back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i&#8217;m not dead yet</title>
		<link>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/04/im-not-dead-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.wingdangdoo.com/2009/04/im-not-dead-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data catastrophe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You haven&#8217;t updated your blog in a loooooong time,&#8221; she tells me during her check-in phone call. &#8220;I worry.&#8221;
I&#8217;m fine. Silent-ish but ok.

I survived Easter, the first big holiday since my mom died. I survived almost losing all months and months of data when my work hard drive crashed; the last time I backed up [...]]]></description>
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