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		<title>Pickup Line Rage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The kids school has drop off and pickup lines for vehicles. I drive my car up and my children jump out or jump in depending on the time of day. I am to stay in my vehicle moving along at a snails pace stopping every 20 feet until it is my turn to enter pickup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://manrymission.com/2010/03/11/pickup-line-rage/</link>
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		<title>Winter Water View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The homes for sale advertisements always sound markedly better than the actual homes look. Dale recently saw an ad for a home near us that proclaimed &#8220;winter water view.&#8221;
On occasion, from my upstairs window, in late winter, when the sun hits the water just right, I have seen my winter water view. Yesterday afternoon, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://manrymission.com/2010/03/10/winter-water-view/</link>
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		<title>Believe the Robin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Robin is hopping about my front yard, the temperature may reach 60 degrees, and the bare root roses were calling out to me at the home improvement store. Apparently, the Farmer&#8217;s Almanac has predicted we will get one more wallop of winter this month, but I cannot believe it.
The birds are building nests and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://manrymission.com/2010/03/09/believe-the-robin/</link>
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		<title>How To Be Insincere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Manrys made it to the district spelling bee competition this year. Josiah is too old now and Abby and Gabe believe their mother could use a break from attempting to pronounce vertiginous, theorbo, and hepatotoxicity.
Another student from their school who made it to the district bee this year informed Abby that he could beat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://manrymission.com/2010/03/08/how-to-be-insincere/</link>
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		<title>Guidance Counselor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up on the Iron Range in Minnesota, it was assumed kids would try to get a job in the mines or in support of the mines. Most students who went to college were encouraged to attend Saint Cloud State. For parents, Saint Cloud State wasn&#8217;t as fraught with danger as &#8220;moving [...]]]></description>
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