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		<title>Be Grateful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cancer teaches quite a few lessons &#8230; some more dramatic than others. One of the big ones is the necessity of being grateful. Grateful for an appetite, for the desire to eat. Grateful for functioning taste buds on the days when you have an appetite. Grateful for family &#8230; especially the family you live with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=239&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Asked God for 30 More Years &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<title>God is Good &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am someone who looks for God in ordinary, every day experiences and crises, believing as I do that the sum total of our every day experiences and crises constitute the totality and legacy of our individual and communal lives. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=221&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving my Nadir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I, however, am not one of those patients that suffer pain in silence. I am very vocal, and once inside the emergency room, I was moaning, crying, and praying out loud.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=212&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lifetime Member of the Breast Cancer Survivor&#8217;s Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While my  faith assures me that I am now fighting cancer, and that I am winning, I currently feel like whining, because I simply do not want to go through this!! I whined this morning to my husband &#8220;I was a good girl. Why did I get cancer?&#8221; He replied with something that sounded like &#8220;bad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=197&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tracks of my Tears</title>
		<link>http://floridasdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/tracks-of-my-tears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And in those intimate moments he once again assured me that he loved and had married me, not my breasts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=188&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good-Bye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dreamed about them again last night. I dreamed about their beginnings. I dreamed about how they’ve existed parallel to my life, serving and exposing me, reflecting my rebellion, betraying my trust. When I awoke, my breasts were sore and achy, probably due to my monthly cycle. But it doesn’t take much creative muscle to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=164&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God gives us the spirit of fear, too</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So no, I don't believe God did not give us the spirit of fear. She not only gave us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of love, and determination, and courage as well.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=159&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One week before surgery and I am afraid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am afraid that the sacrifice of both my breasts and my ovaries will not be enough of a price to pay for a cancer-free life.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=152&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic Burden of Illness</title>
		<link>http://floridasdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/the-economic-burden-of-illness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muriel Lenore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I’ve always known that just one serious illness can bankrupt a family’s finances, it was not until my own recent cancer diagnosis that the truth of that statement became a reality to me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=floridasdaughter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2300103&#038;post=141&#038;subd=floridasdaughter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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