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		<title>Engaged with 3 and 1/2 months to go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everyone!! In case you haven&#8217;t heard it from me, my fiance, Twitter, Facebook, or a save the date, I&#8217;m engaged! We are excited to share that our nuptials will take place in New Orleans in April. We are trying to avoid everyone looking like a big ole humidified mess while keeping our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=256&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 50 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=254&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>non-traditional tradition makes me happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[speak up!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the Marriage Equality Act set to take effect on Sunday, 24 July, granting all New York couples the right to marry, I&#8217;m absolutely ecstatic to call myself a New Yorker! This weekend, 823 gay couples will say &#8220;I will&#8221; or &#8220;I do&#8221; thanks to the New York legislature seeing the light a month ago. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=240&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 easy ways to send hydrofracking packing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Please take a moment out of your morning to do something very important. For those of you who have lived in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and a number of other states that have seen the effects of hydrofracking due to natural gas drilling, you&#8217;ll understand the urgency of this message. Polluted drinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=224&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SpiderMonster, most likely a way better musical&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like everyone else in NYC, I enjoy making fun of Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark, the long-awaited (until recently) musical with a $60M budget. Seriously, with that amount of money, don&#8217;t you think the show could have opened closer to the originally scheduled December date? Oh well, here&#8217;s the musical I prefer.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=217&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My boyfriend and the Bieber</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the extremely short post, but I had to share my favorite conversation of late between the boyfriend and myself. It went a little something like this: Me: Wow I can&#8217;t believe Charlie Day is as young as he is. He&#8217;s like our age! P: Why can&#8217;t you believe that? Me: Because it seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=204&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Heifer? Help Haiti!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Camp Mitchell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy beautiful Tuesday, beautiful people! Many of you know about the good work of Heifer International. Well, since I&#8217;ve been in the five boroughs, I&#8217;ve gotten involved with Heifer&#8217;s chapter in Brooklyn. Growing up in Arkansas, I&#8217;ve always been acquainted with the amazing work Heifer does locally and abroad. Many of us grew up doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=180&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 reasons why New York men have lost their minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me marginally, knows that I have an old-fashioned set of sensibilities. I like manners.  Emily Post (one of two print versions on my book shelves, although the online version is lovely) is a source I consult on at least a weekly basis.  I look forward to setting the table with all utensils [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=121&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to blues legend, Pinetop Perkins&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a sad day indeed when you learn that Pinetop Perkins has left us for good. I&#8217;ve been going to the King Biscuit Blues Festival (for a time the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival) in Helena, Arkansas, since 1997 with few exceptions. Each year, I looked forward to the late afternoon, Saturday performance of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=166&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A very theatrical week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder why I live in this city. It&#8217;s stinky in the summer because for some reason alleyways sounded like a terrible idea to city planners. I encounter more crazy people than sane ones on many days, and I&#8217;m fly paper for weird, so they naturally love me. The wind is absolutely unbearable because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernexpat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12597331&amp;post=156&amp;subd=southernexpat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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