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		<title>In the Presence of Greatness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am ordering a 5 x 7 print of this photo as I write, and later today I will embark on a quest for a frame worthy. And this photograph will sit on my desk now and forever&#8211;and not because we&#8217;re wearing dry-clean-only attire but because we are standing next to true modern-day heroes, a couple who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=3069&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ponies As Partners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[In Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[horseback riding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middletown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ponies As Partners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our son Edgar met Sabina Silvia and her (and his soon-to-be) beloved horse Indy when he was just three years old.  Since then he has been visiting her Third Beach Road farm as often as possible.  When others might have questioned his attention span, Sabina praised his work ethic; when other environments proved challenging, the ring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=3051&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food for the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epilepsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epilepsy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[He may stand at a mere 36 inches and have been on the planet for just two-and-a-half years, but tonight August showed a capacity for empathy that belies his small stature and decided youth. Surrounded by several EMTs and cradled in my arms, Edgar was working hard to recover from a grand mal seizure.  August stood and watched [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=3043&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Joke</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/no-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption as insult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook photo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/?p=3022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this writing, at least 115 people &#8220;like&#8221; this on Facebook. Another 106 thought it clever enough to &#8220;share&#8221; on their walls. Adjectives used to describe this purported witticism include &#8220;cute,&#8221; &#8220;hilarious,&#8221; &#8220;hysterical,&#8221; and &#8220;cool.&#8221; And, apparently, it made some people &#8220;LOL.&#8221; And at the risk of calling even more attention to it, I present [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=3022&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Knows</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/he-knows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epilepsy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked him how he was feeling as I held him last night. I asked him how he was feeling about his epilepsy, about the seizures, about the medicine. And he said, &#8220;It&#8217;s hard, Mommy.&#8221; I told him I would be there for him, that I would never leave his side.  Ever. And he said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=3017&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s My Brother</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/hes-my-brother-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epilepsy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[He knows the meaning of and can pronounce &#8220;idiopathic.&#8221;  He can differentiate between a grand mal and an absence seizure and delineate the characteristics of each.  And he will be the first one to tell you exactly what epilepsy is (&#8220;a little problem with the electricity in your brain&#8221;) and is not (&#8220;a sickness&#8221;). He&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=3012&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Matty Fund</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/the-matty-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epilepsy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tributes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camp Matty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deb Siravo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epilepsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epilepsy Resource Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matty Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Friend Matty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, I am honored to present to you the following interview with The Matty Fund&#8217;s Richard Siravo.  The Matty Fund has been an invaluable source of support to our family since our son&#8217;s diagnosis of epilepsy 12 weeks ago. Please leave a comment here on this post and Pier Cleaners, a locally owned and operated and environmentally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=2995&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Epilepsy</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/dear-epilepsy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epilepsy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Epilepsy, This letter may be long overdue.  Perhaps I should have penned it twelve weeks ago when you first paid a visit to my sweet, gentle blue-eyed boy.  But I wouldn&#8217;t have known what to say 12 weeks ago.  You caught me off-guard.  Three months later, I still feel as though I am at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=2992&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silencing the Critics</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/silencing-the-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the most recent issue of Parents magazine caught my attention.  And, no, it&#8217;s not because of its title: &#8220;The Naked Truth.&#8221;  Actually, it was more for its subtitle: &#8220;Now that I&#8217;m a mom, I&#8217;ve got nothing to hide.&#8221;  Through the years, a number of articles in Parents have &#8220;caught my attention,&#8221; but none has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=2988&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Resolution I Can Keep</title>
		<link>http://samanthahines.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/a-resolution-i-can-keep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samanthahines</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Year's Resolutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the season to reflect on what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not working in our lives and make a solemn vow starting on January 1st that everything is going to be better from now on.  It&#8217;s noble.  It&#8217;s lofty.  And, for me, it has been a largely unrealistic if not futile endeavor.  The top new year&#8217;s resolutions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanthahines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3898382&amp;post=2984&amp;subd=samanthahines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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