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		<title>So easy to find vegan stuff when you can make it yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I prefer quality stuff made in America rather than cheap crap made in China. Unfortunately, the good stuff is less likely to be vegan: a throw pillow filled with down, or a nice jacket or blanket made from wool, or some accessory with leather pieces on it. It&#8217;s also getting harder to find clothes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story Time and Book Signing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathalie VanBalen, author of kids&#8217; book Garlic-Onion-Beet-Spinach-Mango-Carrot-Grapefruit Juice, will be at Firestorm on Saturday, June 18, 10am for story time and book signing. Firestorm Cafe &#38; Books is located at 48 Commerce St. Just off of Coxe Ave in downtown Asheville. Also accessible from Patton Ave. For more info about Garlic-Onion-Beet-Spinach-Mango-Carrot-Grapefruit Juice, please visit ThoraThinks.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to terms with God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 01:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an atheist. I don&#8217;t believe in God. By that I mean I don&#8217;t believe there is any intelligent force guiding events. Sure, I recognize that I could be wrong about that, but I find the idea of God (or whatever you want to call it) pretty far-fetched. In the last several years, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Death for Cats: Letting Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 4 years ago, my cat Rocky was euthanized after about 2 years and $20K worth of veterinary visits, hospital stays, expensive tests, injections, pills, liquids, special food, vitamins, and subcutaneous fluids. I didn&#8217;t realize at the time that it would add up to so much effort and money just to have the same end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking my escape from America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, in response to insane real estate prices and ever-decreasing civil liberties, my partner and I decided to do something drastic: leave the United States. I found an online resource called Escape from America magazine, which offered information on other countries across the globe to which Americans were relocating. We chose Boquete, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what a plum tree looks like</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I moved into my house 2 years ago, I was told that the pretty little tree in the front yard was a &#8220;decorative cherry tree&#8221;. What a waste to grow inedible fruit, I thought to myself. I never noticed any fruit at all on it last year. But this year, sure enough, little hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asheville Reminds Me of Summer Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 02:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From about the age of 8 or so until I was probably around 12, I spent 2 weeks every summer in a place called Camp Segowea. I think it was in Massachusetts, somewhere in the mountains in or near the Appalachian Trail. It was very green and misty and rustic and full of bugs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gregory is home!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It feels like a dream. But here he is, purring on my lap &#8211; skinny, exhausted, but otherwise doing fine. He was 17 miles away in the town of Weaverville. Luckily my number was on his collar and he is so friendly that he eventually wandered up to someone who thought he might be lost. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/7343425.stm" title=" The long run to freedom" target="_blank"><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44561000/jpg/_44561096_gilbertscars270.jpg" title="Tuhabonye" alt="Tuhabonye" class="left" border="0" height="270" width="203" /></a>This Tutsi man was nearly burned to death along with 100 of his friends and neighbors by rival Hutus.  He narrowly escaped through a window but suffered severe burns that reached all the way to the bone of his right shin.  He is now set to run in the London Marathon and hopes to make it to the Olympics.

In 1996, he came face-to-face with the man in charge of killing him and those many others who were not so lucky.  As this mass murderer begged forgiveness at Tuhabonye's feet, he let him go free.

"If I can let someone who tried to kill me go free, I can do anything - it inspired me."

What are you still holding on to?]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Anti-depressants don&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://www.vegangirl.com/study-anti-depressants-dont-work.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vegangirl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00017/capsule_17601t.jpg" title="Anti-depressants don't work" alt="Anti-depressants don't work" class="left" border="0" width="285" />There is a horrifying trend in the U.S. to put everyone on pharmaceuticals for mood disorders, rather than trying to find and correct the underlying cause.  The medical industry wants us to buy into this idea that we are helpless victims of circumstance, rather than in control of our physical and mental health.  They dismiss diet, exercise, and environmental factors as possible minor contributors, but even that seems to be too "inconclusive" for them.

As far as I can tell, they will slap a "disorder" label on perfectly normal people, just so they can cure them with pills.  I remember a commercial from a few years ago for an anti-depressant that directed people to ask their doctor about some pill if they have felt depressed for longer than 2 weeks.  Anyone who has ever been dumped, worked at a job they hated, or suffered a loss in the family has surely felt depressed for at least that long.  I have, and I didn't take any pills, but somehow I turned out just fine.]]></description>
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