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		<description>The original writings of author Anna Ivanova</description>
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			<title>Without Wings</title>
			<description>Fly, without wings, into the face of a tornado.Leave behind everything, everyone, your own life.Let the storm rip you a new existence.&amp;nbsp;Throw away all possessions, even if they're thoughts.Drift aimlessly, recklessly, as though danger is a friend.Get the s**t beat out of you until yo..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/1040315/</link>
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			<title>I need a drug</title>
			<description>Or, the ability to start life all over again.  Probably the likelihood of the drug is better.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/993925/</link>
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			<title>Where my world actually meets</title>
			<description>Nowhere</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/952841/</link>
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			<title>Sun/Son</title>
			<description>It's a forever thing.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/940838/</link>
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			<title>Vicky</title>
			<description>She was really into sex.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/922382/</link>
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			<title>Heart, broken</title>
			<description>Did I not always know that the dung heap awaits?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/890098/</link>
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			<title>I am not</title>
			<description>In the absence ofboosting egos,agreeing,earning money,sympathizing,cooking,cleaning,raising children,f*****g,and apologizingfor doing noneof those thingsquite right,I cease to exist.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/873218/</link>
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			<title>Darkness, shadow, light</title>
			<description>I'm sorry, my angel, but they all must exist.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/866203/</link>
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			<title>My hermit prairie home</title>
			<description>Just drop me off and leave me there until the dust settles, with a years' supply of Guinness, oranges and rice.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/861325/</link>
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			<title>Alpha</title>
			<description>I'd never known one.  My feelings are mixed, now that I do.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/846332/</link>
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			<title>Unlearning versus learning</title>
			<description>Might ya be stuck at the burning bush?  I know I was.  Then it spoke to me.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/844463/</link>
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			<title>Blue Summit Revisited</title>
			<description>Hey, Dylan did it with Highway 61.  Never doubt the word of Dylan.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/830339/</link>
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			<title>Day 1, 2 and 3</title>
			<description>Based on a true story, unfortunately.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/828805/</link>
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			<title>Tule Fog</title>
			<description>My eyes were blinded by the fog, and then I learned to accept it.  Now, I'm trying to see the danger of that accepting.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/828309/</link>
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			<title>I've lived around</title>
			<description>enough to know that the only greener pastures lie within.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/821450/</link>
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			<title>Then I saw her face</title>
			<description>OK - It was actually just her name on her paintings.  Nonetheless.....</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/816746/</link>
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			<title>If</title>
			<description>If you see a chance, take it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/813498/</link>
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			<title>Him</title>
			<description>The sins of the father......</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/813495/</link>
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			<title>The Lady of Shalott</title>
			<description>OK, liberties have been taken!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/813331/</link>
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			<title>Day Three Of The Vigil</title>
			<description>Shine on, you crazy diamond!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/809031/</link>
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			<title>You just never know</title>
			<description>Life just kind of happened for me.No plans were made, and no dreams instilled.Stay in your room, read, and keep quiet.Don't speak unless spoken to, asChildren were to be seen and not heard.And I was good at obeying all the rules.I had a notebook, then a few moreAnd then perhaps a hundr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/807284/</link>
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			<title>Enigma</title>
			<description>This is a song.  Sing it to any tune you like.  It will make you feel good.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/805022/</link>
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			<title>Failure to Launch</title>
			<description>It is the death of me</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/796245/</link>
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			<title>One of my turns</title>
			<description>Syd knew - ask Syd.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/796160/</link>
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			<title>Trying to become comfortably numb</title>
			<description>Were there gold wedding ringswith diamonds, or just solid gold bands?&amp;nbsp;Were their wedding dressesmade from fine white silk,or off-white, perhaps?&amp;nbsp;Were their prenatal visitsattended by both of you, or just sometimes?&amp;nbsp;Were there baby showers?Bridal showers?Tea..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/793362/</link>
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			<title>Words</title>
			<description>She was a woman, very practicedat choosing her words wisely,deliberately, with a purposeBecause otherwise, Silence was&amp;nbsp;better.&amp;nbsp;She had been misunderstoodand her words twistedby those with far more skill,so she learned to hold her thoughtsclose, maybe too much so.&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/793251/</link>
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			<title>Our Parallel Universe</title>
			<description>Because you say it exists!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/790741/</link>
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			<title>Family, Part Two</title>
			<description>I have wondered about this, and I know there is an answer in the cosmos.&amp;nbsp; Probably many different ones.&amp;nbsp; My fantasies have run wild, with no truth upon which to base them.&amp;nbsp; I'm sure many stories can be told, but I don't know a single one.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;What happens when a man and wo..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/790353/</link>
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			<title>Family</title>
			<description>Oh, my lord of lords!&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;This family, of which I do not belong and can never belong, is having a new addition!&amp;nbsp; A baby!&amp;nbsp; A first grandbaby!&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Oh, I want to be some type of surrogate grandmother with all my heart, but I know that the true and real grandmothers wil..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/790348/</link>
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			<title>Society, and my total lack of place in it</title>
			<description>I've made a lot of mistakes.&amp;nbsp; Not very many have been the usual ones.&amp;nbsp; I can't say I've done it &quot;my way&quot; - I've just survived as best I could.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Ole' Blue Eyes sang, &quot;Of mistakes, I've made a few, but then again, too few too mention.&quot;&amp;nbsp; Mine have been far too many to ment..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/789911/</link>
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			<title>The Number Three</title>
			<description>He decided to ramble, so he headed north.&amp;nbsp;She needed to escape, and she headed north, too.&amp;nbsp;He was a brilliant mathematician, a talented musician, a stoner and a jock.&amp;nbsp;She wore furs from Saks Fifth Avenue, and bedded members of the UN at the age of 10.&amp;nbsp;They met up ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Anna-Ivanova/789878/</link>
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