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		<title>Nessie and the Queen of England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  By Ivory Wilson Vendor In 1960, some people were having fun swimming and riding boats in the lagoon. A large green reptile came from the deep water to see what all the noise was about. But Nessie was not welcome. Her picture was taken and posted on the evening news throughout the British Isles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Dad Jim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  By Gary Minter Vendor My late Dad Jim (James Stewart Minter) told me many bedtime stories when I was a little boy. He played and coached us kids at softball in the dusty field across the street from our house in Villa Park, Illinois. He brought me shakes and burgers at night and sometimes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd &amp; D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Adrienne Harris Volunteer 2nd &#038; D.  That’s how most people who have stayed there refer to the John L. Young Women’s Shelter. It’s one of those places you occasionally hear about when someone is trying to build up her street rep.  However, I don’t know whether the “harshness” of the place is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Days Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Phillip Black Vendor / The &#8220;Cat in the Hat&#8221; To me, 2012 means better days ahead. In order to have better days, I will start making better decisions and better choices for myself. In the past, I would make a New Year’s resolution, but always break it. For a long time, I always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Smile Goes a Long Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  By Michael Pennycook Vendor Well, a lot of people ask me, “Why don’t you smile?” I have had this problem all my life.  People say, “You look good when you smile, Mike.” But for a long time I never smiled.  It wasn’t because I wasn’t happy.  I just didn’t have a reason to smile. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished Business</title>
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		<title>Rollin Thunder, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Jeffery McNeil Vendor Summary of Part 1: Growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, Rollin’ Thunder tolerated racist insults from a group of white children his age.  The insults stopped when the children realized he was a football prodigy.  Now Rollin’ Thunder continues with his story: After everyone left, Chad’s father grabbed me and asked, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Robert Warren Vendor Oh, as I go on, how can I find in me what I need from others? Too much fear of the Lord, too much pain, to be anything but who I am. Now as I look back on the lives lost to times that never made sense to me, Why? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veda Simpson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Brandon Caudill Volunteer Veda Simpson has taken her act to the web! The veteran Street Sense vendor has become the newest member of Twitter and Facebook, although you’ll still have to head to her usual selling spot at the corner of 13th and G Street (near the Street Sense office) to get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Landscape of Mental Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  By Ted Henson The origins of the &#8220;Dixon Case&#8221; go back to 1974, when a class action lawsuit was filed against the federal government and District government on behalf of individuals civilly-committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast D.C. The plaintiffs demanded community-based treatment alternatives to hospitalization for mental illness. The lawsuit was part of a much larger [...]]]></description>
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