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			<title>Am I different?</title>
			<description>It can happen to us all.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2077437/</link>
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			<title>Goodby Chas and Thanks</title>
			<description>A word of praise for a favourite  musical genous who has passed away</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2062521/</link>
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			<title>Running out of Time</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Running out of time?Why the heck has Skype changed its contact routineHow do we know who is available on lineI am pretty sure that everyone wil..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2062046/</link>
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			<title>Never a Poet</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Never a PoetI will never understand why I thought I'd be a poetI get lost in verse and subjects and my writing shows itMy aim is to make a storey in the minimum of timeMy only sign of poetry is when I try to make it ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2056766/</link>
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			<title>The Grass Has Grown</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The Grass has GrownI looked out at my lawns the front garden and backIt's been such..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2055758/</link>
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			<title>Sorry I Tried.</title>
			<description>Humour regarding foolish husbands helping efforts!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2054258/</link>
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			<title>Time is running out.</title>
			<description>Time is Running out.I feel that time is running out and I don't know where to goUp or down,&quot;Heaven or Hell&quot; how am I supposed to know?I have always done my bit so there should be some rewardOK I haven't been perfectly behaved so I don't expect an award.As a child you are led to believe that there is..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2053200/</link>
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			<title>Message from God</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Messa..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2051827/</link>
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			<title>Where did Great Britain Go</title>
			<description>Mainly due to the problems we are having trying to leave the EU</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2048784/</link>
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			<title>Nature's Beauty</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Nature's BeautyI was relaxed on my Beer bench enjoying the sunWith a nice glass of whisky to make it more funWhen a Red Robin decided to land on my headMis..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2045408/</link>
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			<title>Where did they go.</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Where did they go?I am completely confused about where to beginI am referring to the lack of driving disciplineIt has become a nightmare whilst..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2037450/</link>
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			<title>Maybe too late?</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Maybe too late?There are so many things I have ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2036463/</link>
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			<title>Life don't get easy!</title>
			<description>Fact of life unfortunately.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2034500/</link>
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			<title>Times They are a' changing</title>
			<description>Timesthey are a-changingIt was Sundaymorning and I lay in my bedI became awarethat I had thoughts in my headIt occurred tome&amp;nbsp; my brain was doing a searchRegarding aSunday when we all went to church.&amp;nbsp;There was Sundaymorning service, mainly for Dads..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2033096/</link>
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			<title>Climatic Disaster</title>
			<description>Just a reaction to the weather we are suffering in the UK</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2032774/</link>
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			<title>Return of the Reaper</title>
			<description>Second edition of a visit of the Grim Reaper.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2028365/</link>
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			<title>Sparrow Invader</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sparrow InvaderI have a littlesparrow who seems to have left the &quot;Straight and Narrow&quot;He spends manyhours wrecking all my flowers.He ischallenging my metal by destroying geranium buds and petalsHe has been..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2024451/</link>
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			<title>Sugar Intervention</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sugar InterventionI feel that I'vemade a huge mistakeI've justdevoured a chocolate cakeI knew it coulddamage my healthThough I did itwith incredible stealthMy wife screamed&quot;You are pathetic&quot;Don't you realizethat you are&amp;nbsp; dia..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2023987/</link>
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			<title>Fish List</title>
			<description>Things we did as boys</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2023986/</link>
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			<title>A Knew Life.</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A New Life.I've made adecision, today I'm changing my lifeI'm becoming agood man no more causing strife.I've been agrumpy old b*****d for many a yearWhilst today my..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2023789/</link>
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			<title>Taken Prisoner</title>
			<description>Climate change maybe!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2023787/</link>
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			<title>Am I different?</title>
			<description>Age related, it will happen to us all unfortunately but if you learn to live with it, it will be OK.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2022984/</link>
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			<title>Alcoholic Mystery</title>
			<description>Do we have to believe everything they say?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2022981/</link>
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			<title>Technological Nightmare</title>
			<description>based on a true happening.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/2022980/</link>
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			<title>Tick toilet tick box</title>
			<description>Written when many public conveniences were full of ridiculous orders that were to be obeyed and Ticked before the toilet was used</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1983043/</link>
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			<title>The longest Mile</title>
			<description>This was written when we were losing war hero's and I thought a tribute should be given to our Fallen Hero's  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1982984/</link>
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			<title>Crude Gratitude</title>
			<description>Never trust a squirrel</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1982963/</link>
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			<title>True Grit</title>
			<description>Just an early warning to our local councils</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1982591/</link>
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			<title>Grim Reaper.</title>
			<description>Pure fiction</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1982555/</link>
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			<title>Mistaken Identity</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Mistaken IdentityMy eyesighthas been failing quite rapidlyI can neverbe sure of the things that I seeI squintwith my left eye then with my rightMuc..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1980958/</link>
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			<title>Curse or Verse</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Curse or Verse?We have allexperienced that situationWhere wewould all love to swearWhere asubject causes inflammationBut swearingdoesn&amp;rsquo;t get you anywhere&amp;nbsp;I believeI&amp;rsquo;ve found a soothing answ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1980949/</link>
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			<title>Cosmetic Chaos</title>
			<description>Always believe what you see</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1980919/</link>
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			<title>Curse Of Christmas</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The Curse of Christmas.Known as the Festive season, I'm sure there is a reasonWhy it leaves many people stoney brokePresents are not cheap and you can watch the pr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1980488/</link>
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			<title>God Bless Women</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; GodBless WomenIt has taken over seventyyears but now I feel that I should raiseA flag to every lovelywoman, it is time that I sang their praiseAs man matures he beginsto see the importance of la-femmeWhen he approaches oldage he knows that all depends on them...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1979971/</link>
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			<title>Age related collection</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Age RelatedCollectionAs we amble through our lives we begin to lose perfectionMost of which only applies to menEyesight, hearing, greying hair and retaining an erectionThings that we will..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1979963/</link>
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			<title>My hip makes me trip</title>
			<description>Trying to look on the bright side of aging</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1979551/</link>
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			<title>Ginger Tom</title>
			<description>Viewed from a cat's eyes!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1976795/</link>
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			<title>Sickness Solaria</title>
			<description>Just a joke.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1976793/</link>
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			<title>Replace the Fireplace</title>
			<description>The woman always wins.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1976792/</link>
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			<title>Bring me Sunshine</title>
			<description>Climate change worry</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1976521/</link>
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			<title>Drive with care.</title>
			<description>Driving can be frustrating</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1975259/</link>
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			<title>Three score Years and Ten</title>
			<description>Aging population?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1975257/</link>
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			<title>Beer Bench Delight.</title>
			<description>Just a joke.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1975236/</link>
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			<title>Dementia</title>
			<description>Approaching at an alarming rate.!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1975231/</link>
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			<title>He Aint Heavy</title>
			<description>based on a true happening, age takes no prisoners</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1974832/</link>
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			<title>Confusion Reigns</title>
			<description>I'm sure that many have had a problem with Windows 10</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1974503/</link>
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			<title>Fingers Crossed</title>
			<description>Just a small thank you message.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1974100/</link>
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			<title>When you were young.</title>
			<description>Learning all about Life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rm14829/1973839/</link>
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