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		<title>The We Buy Gold Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new hero. The first time I drove past him, it was 11:00 on a brutal August morning in Georgia. The heat and humidity had already exceeded the Dangerous for Old People and Sensitive Writers level—it felt like walking around the inside of a dragon’s mouth, being steam-boiled alive. This time of year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2011/09/21/the-we-buy-gold-guy/</link>
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		<title>Princess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Father&#8217;s Day, with more love than words can hold&#8230; Princess by Elizabeth Laing Thompson Twirling in a clumsy pirouette, a carousel of pink lace, purple satin, spangled frills, she whirls to a breathless stop, her pixie face radiating self-delight. Wiggling fingers stretched wide to embrace the world, her cockeyed crown slips down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2011/06/18/princess/</link>
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		<title>Pomp and Circumstances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moments. Life is a series of moments—thousands, millions of them, strung together in dizzying, relentless procession. And sometimes they rear-end each other, piling up in a tangled, mangled mess of memory so we don’t know when one ends and another begins, and we risk losing forever the ones that get pancaked in-between. The soccer game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2011/05/16/pomp-and-circumstances/</link>
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		<title>The Biker Wave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a simple gesture, really. The motorcycle rider, driving toward my minivan on a two-lane road, flicked his right wrist casually out to the side, his fingers pointing toward the pavement. I watched for him to turn, thinking he was making a turn signal&#8230; but then he kept going past me, disappearing in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2011/04/15/the-biker-wave/</link>
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		<title>Joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Elizabeth Laing Thompson The joy is in the trying, the hoping, the crying; The joy is in the wanting, the wishing, the hunting; The joy is in the dreaming, the planning, the scheming; The joy is in the yearning, the aching, the burning; The joy is in the striving, the longing, the sighing; The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2011/03/28/joy/</link>
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		<title>Words That Are Fun to Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a word lover, I take delight in rolling words around in my brain and off my tongue, the way they feel coming together, the way the consonants and vowels and diphthongs (think &#8220;ai&#8221; and &#8220;ei&#8221; and &#8220;oi&#8221;) all work together to make sounds, almost like music. And as a mother of three small, lisping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2011/03/16/words-that-are-fun-to-say/</link>
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		<title>Everything I Know About Life I Learned from America&#8217;s Funniest Home Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything I need to know about life, I learned from America’s Funniest Home Videos: 1. If you hold a baby up to your face, they will vomit in your mouth. 2. If you hold a naked baby’s hind parts anywhere near your face&#8230; heaven help you. 3. If you dance on a table, it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2010/10/09/everything-i-know-about-life-i-learned-from-americas-funniest-home-videos/</link>
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		<title>The Thirteenth Summer (and Jimmy) on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Thirteenth Summer now has its own Facebook page, in case you hadn&#8217;t heard: www.facebook.com/thirteenthsummer. I&#8217;m posting lots of fun stuff about the book, including some deleted scenes from early manuscripts, inside info on the characters, and updates about the book&#8217;s Quest to Become a Movie (It&#8217;s been optioned by Hollywood producers, who are already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2010/10/01/the-thirteenth-summer-and-jimmy-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>After the Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bring on the sweatshirts, I&#8217;m sooooo ready for fall! We got a huge downpour on Saturday morning, and this poem is what came out of it in my brain&#8230; The formatting is rather atrocious (darn the built-in formatting features I can&#8217;t seem to get around!), but&#8230; well, here you go. After the Rain A whisper, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2010/08/25/after-the-rain/</link>
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		<title>Bubble-Wrap Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bubble-Wrapped Dreams (If you like subtitles, this one actually has one: Christmas in July. In case anyone’s wondering. Which you probably aren’t.) I still get a thrill every time I check the mail, just like I did when I was a little girl. I walk down my long driveway to our black mailbox, standing guard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lizzylit.com/2010/07/20/bubble-wrap-magic/</link>
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