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		<title>A Dear John Letter</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2011/09/15/a-dear-john-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear John, It was the sixth grade when we decided to go steady. Steady as two eleven year-old kids can go while attending different elementary schools and seeing each other what seemed an eternity’s wait &#8211; once a week at church. The relationship just didn’t work out and I never faulted you for that. I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Longing for Daddy</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2011/06/19/longing-for-daddy-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I well recall that first Father’s Day after Daddy died. It had been sixty-five days since he had drawn his last breath. Sixty-five excruciating days each filled with at least one good cry. And another milestone to get behind me: Father’s Day. It was Saturday afternoon and I needed a few items from the grocery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Buttermilk</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2011/05/19/no-more-buttermilk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The old gray mare she ain’t what she used to be&#8230;many long years ago” are words to a song many of us sang as kids. It’s one that comes to mind as I observe the “twilight” years  of my beloved Mother (who is visiting for the week) and our dachshund, Tootsie Roll.  Mother is ninety-one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smiles: One Dollar</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2011/02/15/smiles-one-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in a hurry to get to the cluster of mailboxes in my neighborhood before the postman arrived. I had an urgent letter to send and in my hand a small heart-shaped box of chocolates. As I rounded the corner I could see the mail truck nestled against the cluster of boxes. I walked as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Christmas card List</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2010/12/25/156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post was about my mother not being able to remember some of the people on her Christmas card list. It prompted a desire for me to record something about each precious person on my own list in the event dementia should set in and I need a little help someday. This is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s on Your Christmas Card List?</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2010/12/10/whos-on-your-christmas-card-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad was the one who wrote the annual Christmas letter or poem, addressed and stamped each card, and sent them to a lifelong list of friends and family. After his death my older sister and I took on this task for our mother. Now that Mother is ninety years-old she can’t remember some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Do You Know?</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2010/09/28/who-do-you-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If you will be my friend I’ll introduce you to your cousins THIS side of the Mississippi,” I recently wrote to a much younger cousin in a facebook friend request. I doubt Brad can remember much about me but I thought he should get to know his cousins, many of them his age. He grew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quarters from Heaven</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2010/08/24/quarters-from-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[// PLEASE CHANGE DEFAULT EXCERPT HANDLING TO CLEAN OR FULL (go to your WordPress Dashboard/Settings/Cincopa Options ... cp_load_widget("%5Bcincopa+10724897%5D", "_cp_widget_4f3bcc2389548"); Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer. Today is my birthday and I have cause to celebrate – I am alive! It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Masks We Wear</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2009/04/08/the-masks-we-wear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I called a former classmate’s mother to try to reconnect. I haven’t seen him in nearly twenty years. Her evasiveness made me wonder, Could it just be a mind gone bad? I told her who I was, my daddy’s name –one that establishes our reputation. I went on to say I had once attended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell dear friend&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://belindahowardsmith.com/blog/2009/02/27/farewell-dear-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure you recall that it was your son who introduced us near the end of my freshman year of high school. That was forty years ago and I cannot recall when or how it was that we became friends. It must have been instant. Back then, we had a mutual love for sewing, shopping, [...]]]></description>
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