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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 30,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=1041&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Logic&#8230;and My Father&#8217;s Name.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(If you haven&#8217;t already,  you might want to read part 1 of my search. ) I walked in to the Lincoln Hall of Justice Probate court for Wayne County on Forest avenue in Detroit on Friday December 12, 2011.  Up on the third floor in courtroom B is where I would ask a judge to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=1031&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictable Residue&#8211;Part 1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the residue that attaches itself to an adoptee as a by-product of the rejection issues we often face is the need to be liked and accepted.  Looking back at my life as an adolescent,  I can zoom in with laser point accuracy at the many times I did things purposely to fit in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=1024&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Search For The Possible</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;His name is too common for me to do a search.&#8221; This was the response I got from the Court Appointed Intermediary(C/I) I hired to find my biological father.  Since I have no information on my biological father my only recourse was to hire a C/I  who is appointed by the court to go into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=1012&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Journey To Me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago at the same desk I sit now I began this blog with the purpose of creating a space for me to exhaust some creative energy.  It was a way to bleed from my system these unusual and imaginative thoughts and pictures I had trapped somewhere inside my skull.  So initially I wrote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=1002&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smashing Fun House Mirrors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first mother transported me from  Martin Place West Hospital where I was born a few days before to my first and only foster home.  For reasons unknown it was her job to make sure I was taken to the foster home.  My foster mother met my first mother outside her home and there I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=978&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of My Skin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun reaches in the large window at the head of my bed and grabs my upper eye lids and pulls them open.  I shift my body in bed and my 5 pound dog, Halle, groans as my change in position displaces her from her comfortable lounging posture in the bed next to me.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=967&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fortunate Rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie, the shy slight teenager approached her close friend,  &#8220;I have something I need to tell you.&#8221; &#8220;Girl, you can tell me anything.  What is it?  You look so serious.&#8221;  The friend replied. &#8220;Remember that party we went to after the basketball game a few weeks ago?  Remember I disappeared for a while and you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=952&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>42 Ties and I Have None</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He missed out on 42 cards and 42 ties.  He missed the day I took my first step, said my first word, hit my first ball, dated my first girl, married my first(and only) wife, had my first two(and only two) kids, and I&#8217;m not sure he even knew the opportunities he was missing. My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=938&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution From Panic to Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back on grade school, I can now admit that I really struggled with fitting in.  I was submerged in an environment that made it easy for me to blend-in.  My grade school was a Black-utopia.  98% of  the children in my small private school checked &#8220;Black&#8221; on their admission paperwork.  In the 70&#8242;s checking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymindonpaper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8439515&amp;post=930&amp;subd=mymindonpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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