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	<title>Steve Gershom &#187; friendship</title>
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		<title>Slowly</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/06/slowly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. and I have been driving for four hours or so, with C. asleep in the back seat. Even though the setup is perfect, we haven&#8217;t had a single DMC1 yet, just a stream of banter as we find the places where our senses of humor fit together. Is something wrong, or is this good?...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/06/slowly/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Steve: Obsession and Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/03/dear-steve-obsession-and-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=2050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My dear friend A. recently revealed to me that she&#8217;s bisexual, or whatever you want to call it &#8212; I&#8217;m no more comfortable with that term than I am with the term &#8220;gay,&#8221; but you know what I mean. I&#8217;m pretty sure female homosexuality is a whole different beast from the male variety, but some...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/03/dear-steve-obsession-and-identity/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A History of Tears</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/02/a-history-of-tears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abba]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=2005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, stop crying already.&#8221; It&#8217;s twenty years ago, but I remember the exact tone of my father&#8217;s voice, equal parts impatience and disgust. To me, crying is something that happens, not something I can decide to do or not do, so his command makes me burn with all the anger of which a nine-year-old is...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/02/a-history-of-tears/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Delight</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/01/delight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2003, and I am afloat emotionally and spiritually and socially and nearly every other way a 20-year-old can be afloat. The administration keeps talking about community, like it has for the last three years: building it, taking part in it, respecting it, supporting it; but I don&#8217;t know what community is, don&#8217;t even know...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/01/delight/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Seen</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/01/seen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, because I&#8217;m not used to dealing with life without tobacco (12 days so far, whee!) and because I ran out of my meds accidentally that morning (I&#8217;ve got some more now) and because sometimes things are just a lot to take, I found myself sitting in my cubicle and looking at my...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/01/seen/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Spiders</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/08/spiders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re gonna have to call in a prescription for more adderal,&#8221; says an instant message from my friend S. &#8220;My head is all fuzzy.&#8221; Oops, that wasn&#8217;t for me. S. hastily explains that he was trying to chat his wife, but got the wrong window. He&#8217;s been diagnosed with ADHD for ages, he says, and...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/08/spiders/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Sodom and the Madonna</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/08/sodom-and-the-madonna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What on earth am I doing?&#8221; is what I completely fail to think, as I position my hand so that when the portly-but-attractive bartender (has he been giving me the eye, or is it my imagination?) puts my glass back down on the counter, his fingers will make contact with mine. It works &#8212; can&#8217;t...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/08/sodom-and-the-madonna/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Out, Pt. IV</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/05/moving-out-pt-iv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[ This story started here and continued here. ] IV: LEAVING VENUS I&#8217;m almost home from DC, and I stop to text Father T: Nearly there. Stopping by chapel for half hour. If all goes well in prayer, is it okay to tell them tonight? I hate having to ask about miniscule things like this,...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/05/moving-out-pt-iv/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>With Coffee Spoons</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/04/with-coffee-spoons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s spring, and I am rediscovering the pleasures of the coffee shop patio. A table over, three old Russians scratch lottery tickets. Two tables over, a man enthusiastically discusses his plans for a new kind of porn website (&#8220;classy; not like Hustler. That&#8217;s just how I was raised&#8230;how do you feel about photography?&#8221;). A group...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2012/04/with-coffee-spoons/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Thoughts on Romance</title>
		<link>http://www.stevegershom.com/2011/12/quick-thoughts-on-romance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gershom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevegershom.com/?p=1001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post this as a comment to the last post, but since this is MY BLOG and my thoughts are THE MOST IMPORTANT so I get CENTER STAGE and also I am THE SMARTEST, I am going to make a WHOLE POST out of it. So. A few have noted that it&#8217;s...<div class="more-text"><a href="http://www.stevegershom.com/2011/12/quick-thoughts-on-romance/">Read more &#187;</a></div>]]></description>
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