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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Spreen</dc:creator>
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		<title>Finding Friends in Middle-Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Spreen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You spent your life working and now, God willing, you’re looking at retirement. You’ll have time, glorious time! So you blow out the candles, go home with your plaque and sleep in the next day. At first your life is &#8230; <a href="http://anyshinything.com/2012/02/17/finding-friends-in-middle-age/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyshinything.com&amp;blog=9831289&amp;post=2795&amp;subd=lynnespreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demi Could Learn from Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Spreen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel bad for Demi, melting down and all. According to the tabs, she&#8217;s distraught over turning fifty. It must be horrifying when Ashton Kutcher takes a good look at you and realizes you&#8217;re no longer young, and then your &#8230; <a href="http://anyshinything.com/2012/02/10/demi-could-learn-from-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyshinything.com&amp;blog=9831289&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=lynnespreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Wouldn&#8217;t Be Seventeen Again if You Paid Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Spreen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She threads her way through the cars on this swirly cold day, coming up my son’s driveway, and with the winter sun and the wind blowing her shoulder-length hair in her eyes all I saw at first was that eager &#8230; <a href="http://anyshinything.com/2012/02/03/i-wouldnt-be-seventeen-again-if-you-paid-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyshinything.com&amp;blog=9831289&amp;post=2542&amp;subd=lynnespreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Old Is a Privilege</title>
		<link>http://anyshinything.com/2012/01/27/getting-old-is-a-privilege/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Spreen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The doctor felt sorry for the elderly woman. She had recently been widowed after seventy-three years of marriage, and now she would live out her days in this rest home. &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry,&#8221; the doctor said. &#8220;What has it been &#8230; <a href="http://anyshinything.com/2012/01/27/getting-old-is-a-privilege/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anyshinything.com&amp;blog=9831289&amp;post=2701&amp;subd=lynnespreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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