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		<title>Before the Red Ribbon</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/02/19/before-the-red-ribbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Personal Essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the winning essays in NOWW's Postcard Story Challenge. Before the red ribbon, I would press the snooze button once, maybe twice, then shower, dress, and eat breakfast: toast &#038; peanut butter, orange juice.]]></description>
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		<title>Epoch</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/21/epoch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it *was* as accident...]]></description>
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		<title>Morgue</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/24/morgue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hands pull the lifeless
organ from my chest
its muscular rhythm still for 17 minutes
without a beat, after he smacked]]></description>
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		<title>A Wish List of Sorts</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/11/wish-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[barbara walters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bucket list]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[this year, i resolve to...
listen to leonard cohen recite his poem “fingerprints” while we drink red needles in the arizona dusk
chat with margaret atwood over lunch about her creative writing process; i will call her "peggy"]]></description>
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		<title>Salt Fish</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/03/salt-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My mother, bless her wooden heart loves my daughter Allie. I write those words the straight, blue lines of my notebook. At times like this I need to see words on paper so that I  feel their effects. Mother is coming for a visit today.]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Harris of Melbourne St.</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/06/19/autumn-harris-of-melbourne-st/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn Harris lived at #53 Melbourne, four doors down from our house. She was the only other girl my age on the street and probably the best friend I ever had. I envied her because she was it. She knew it. I knew it. And Billy Dorset knew it.]]></description>
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		<title>Rose, Not Mary</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/06/13/rose-not-mary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She looked to Hera for answers, but the goddess was busy tending to the marital bliss of others.]]></description>
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		<title>Mag &amp; Ricca</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/05/30/mag-ricca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 11:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t get it man, I mean, what the fuck?
Ricca’s low, harsh voice rumbles across the table. Her hand claims a smouldering cigarette and stuffs its filter into lips licked by Revlon&#8217;s Wine with Everything.
I mean, like, he’s single now. Right?
Mag says nothing. She watches her friend French inhale a cigarette, watches the smoke as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biographies</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/05/02/biographies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 11:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years into her career, Valerie Poulin realized the advantages to office work were limited to supply booty: pilfered paperclips, unlimited photocopies, and free postage. The best haul (from a long-term stint at a local talent agency), provided the struggling writer with five years worth of script brads.
Valerie Poulin likes men with accents and those without.
Valerie [...]]]></description>
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