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	<title>Ramblings of a Shadow</title>
	<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog</link>
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		<title>All I &#8220;still&#8221; want for Christmas&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of life&#8217;s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison (1847 &#8211; 1931) A friend was talking to the Agency and mentioned to the person that I had also used them without success. The person recommended I give them a call and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2011/12/12/all-i-still-want-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Fear revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel ready to search again, yet I am terrified as well. I promised I would start after the book was published but it has been done for a month now and I haven&#8217;t really done any searching short of reading an article or two or taking a pass at the SSI death index. Fear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2011/03/10/fear-revisited-2/</link>
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		<title>Hunting Shadows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like I mentioned in my last post way back when, I wrote a novel. I had a hard time reading it thru again since it hits close to home. The story is written as fiction with a heavy dose of the reality we as adoptees go thru. A lot of my own story is in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2011/02/08/hunting-shadows/</link>
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		<title>Interesting Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May you live in interesting times. Unknown Yep, it&#8217;s not a Chinese curse and researchers aren&#8217;t sure where it came from although it may be a bad translation of Confucius or a Scottish curse. Where ever it is from, it can be a curse or it can be pretty cool. For me, I am living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2010/02/15/interesting-life/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twas the night before Christmas one wish in my heart to be reunited with one long apart the agencies say no the governments too but all i ask for is the same rights as you. To know my past, my blood, and my birth to know my story in all of it&#8217;s worth. So this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2009/12/24/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Dear President-Elect Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am an American citizen with all the rights AND responsibilities that entails. I vote, serve on juries when called. I work in a service related industry supporting the disposal of waste and recycling. I try to spend my money on local businesses and American products to support my country. I am a taxpayer. From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2008/11/09/dear-president-elect-obama/</link>
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		<title>@#^%$&amp;@%$ EPIC FAIL!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002 So this woman asks for help with her bipolar and the help is given in the removal of her daughter who was placed in foster care. So everything is great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2008/09/09/epic-fail/</link>
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		<title>The rest of the gang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw (1856 &#8211; 1950) I was browsing some blogs the other day and came across this one that made me think. So often we talk about the adoptee child or adult and their mother and father (both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2008/08/30/the-rest-of-the-gang/</link>
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		<title>Why do we search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. Anonymous Remember that old Tootsie Pop commercial. &#8220;How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?&#8221; Where the wise old owl starts to lick and count &#8211; a one, a two, a three CRUNCH!! Three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2008/08/20/why-do-we-search/</link>
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		<title>Birthday Battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana (1863 &#8211; 1952) So my birthday has come and gone and I survived. Actually, I did quite well. I didn&#8217;t spend hours pouring over search sites or Ancestry.com like normal. Instead I watched Eureka Season 2 (I got it as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wraithswrealm.com/blog/2008/08/15/birthday-battle/</link>
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