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	<description>"Grief is the rope burns left behind when what we have held to most dearly is pulled out of reach, beyond our grasp." ~ Stephen Levine</description>
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		<title>The Beauty Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[for brain cancer fund raising http://www.thebeautybook.org/ Thank you to Joanna Garcia and Nick Swisher for the twitter tip about this. Please buy! Filed under: grief<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1946&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog:  Support Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Role Of Support Networks In The Fight Against Cancer by David Haas Cancer is a battle. In fact, it is the toughest battle most people will ever face. Cancer is a disease of aggression and isolation. But no one has to face the battle alone. Support networks are important weapons in the fight against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1933&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memorializing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.&#8221; ~ Author Unknown When Michael died, we had a small, private service for him because he was an intensely private man who had love for a small, select group. At first the kids and I just wanted it to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1926&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Children and Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said on many posts and on &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/goto/MichaelDiCarlo &#8220;&#62;Michaels NTBS page, Michael&#8217;s concern was for kids with cancer. When he would see them in the radiation suite, he would always talk to them and would say to me, &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived my life. They should be out playing.&#8221; There are many causes and foundations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1922&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traces Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 3rd anniversary of Michaels seizure just passed. I wasn&#8217;t home for it. I went to MA to spend the weekend with my family. I have written on here about going through things since he got sick. We had not yet unpacked so much of the basement/garage when he got sick. I was writing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1917&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Til Death Do You Part?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband had a brain tumor. In the summer before he was diagnosed, he acted very weird. Very off-center. It was perplexing. I thought he had fallen out of love with me or was having an affair. I also feared early Alzheimers. The personality change was very upsetting. He was fine for his birthday in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1890&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was the two-year anniversary of Michael&#039;s death. In 2 weeks it is the three-year anniversary of the beginning of his sickness. I spent the weekend prior to the anniversary with my grandkids. I saw Brynn, my most personable and pleasant granddaughter (age 15 months) while her parents were away and then I spent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1867&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming.  Or Not.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2 year anniversary of Michael&#8217;s death is next week and the 3 year anniversary of his illness is next month. Of course the anniversary is weighing on me though I have been trying to will it to not weigh on me. But it is. I have complained over the past few years that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1862&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tired&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve had this overwhelming feeling of being tired of grieving. Tired of missing Michael. Tired of what my life is now without him. Not that it&#8217;s bad or terrible, but I get tired of being without him. Of wishing he were here. I just decided to stop the whole thing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1859&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 14:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is what would have been Michael&#8217;s 60th birthday. I remember he freaked out when he turned 50, but I think he (and I) would have given anything for him to have seen his 60th. I&#8217;ve been doing well lately. Feeling good. I think the Race and the visit to the Wall, while painful, have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ropeburns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5121470&amp;post=1856&amp;subd=ropeburns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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