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	<description>"He who learns must suffer.  And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the   heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon</description>
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		<title>A Wedding Invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love-which is God- will consider our sighs and tears as incense burned at His altar and he will reward us with fortitude. ~Kahlil Gibran
In 1995, my husband, Scott, was attending college and also working on weekends while earning his advanced degree in geology at the University of Houston. I was full time employed at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Easter Package</title>
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		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the flower withers, but the seed remains. ~Kahlil Gibran
Each year, at Easter, my mind wanders back to my orphanage years. Easter was celebrated by going to church, and then later hunting for eggs that we all painted together.
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		<title>My Little Brother, Jim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never, never, never give up. ~Sir Winston Churchhill
It was 1993 when I received a phone call from my father telling me that my youngest half- brother, Jim, was flying in from Germany to see him. Although not my father&#8217;s biological child, Jim was anxious to visit the United States and meet my father, whose last [...]]]></description>
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