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    <title>Gather: Articles by Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</title>
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    <description>Recent Articles on Gather by Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</description>
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    <copyright>Copyright Gather Inc 2009</copyright>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:05:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Merry Christmas</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977194149</link>
      <description>    

    Found this on a special website.  I really love this and thought I would share with my Gather friends.  Wish I could take credit for it, but cannot.  Enjoy! . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:28:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-12-04T16:28:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>10 CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977193394</link>
      <description>From our Legend 

   

  1 - Have you ever spent Christmas in a different country?      No  

  2 - Have you ever spent Christmas Day traveling or stuck in an airport?      . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:59:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-12-03T20:59:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>CALMNESS IN OUR LIVES</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977176927</link>
      <description>I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could    all use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice    heard on the Dr. Phil show, you too can find inner . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-11-14T15:13:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Government Do Not Call List - RANT</title>
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      <description>  

  I have my phone numbers listed on the &amp;quot;Do Not Call&amp;quot; list. I did that because I got so tired of all the &amp;quot;survey&amp;quot; calls or advertisement calls at dinner time, or later, on . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:37:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-11-12T18:37:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I Can Do This too!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977169543</link>
      <description>01. Can you cook? yes     
    02. What was your dream growing up? Become a nurse, get married and have kids   
  03. What talent do you wish you had?    be a comedian   
  04. If I bought you . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:42:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-11-06T22:42:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Bed Sheets</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977163305</link>
      <description>An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a series of tests,  
the last of which had left his bodily systems extremely upset. 
 
Upon making several false alarm trips to the bathroom, he decided  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:50:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-31T13:50:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Alcoholic?</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977161386</link>
      <description>Does a glass or 2 of wine with dinner each evening make one an alcoholic?   

  I love a glass of wine each evening, before dinner, with dinner or after dinner and maybe all 3 times.  I do . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:27:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977161386</guid>
      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-29T18:27:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Who's Driving Your Bus?</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977159643</link>
      <description>  

  If we think about our own lives as being a journey on a bus, surrounded by a great variety of people, all with particular positions on our bus that relate to where they fit into our lives. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:54:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-27T17:54:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>To the Wildfires in Southern California</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977158974</link>
      <description>Very difficult time for us this last week.  My prayers go out to all those who lost their homes from the fires.   I've given lots of donations (money, clothes and food) to those who . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:33:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-26T21:33:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Four Questions</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977151274</link>
      <description>  

A. Four jobs you have had in your life:

•     Mother

•     Wife

•     Companion

•     Admin. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-18T19:00:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Sea</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977138644</link>
      <description>I feel you call to me

beckoning to your warm

clear water.

 

 I wade in waiting for

your wave to take me under

its churning foam.

 

 Down, around I go 

while your current . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:33:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-05T21:33:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>YEA! IT'S FRIDAY &amp; A 3-DAY WEEKEND.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977138205</link>
      <description>A couple of quotes to get us through: &amp;quot;Our lives improve only when we take chances ... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.&amp;quot; Walter Anderson   . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:34:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-05T14:34:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Julie Andrews, Actress/Vocalist</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977134958</link>
      <description>  To commemorate her 69th birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews  made a special appearance at Manhatten's Radio City Music Hall for the  benefit of the AARP.   One . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:14:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-02T14:14:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Happy Fall</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977134943</link>
      <description>Being a  human being is like being a pumpkin.   God lifts you up, takes you in,and washes all the dirt off of you.   He opens you up, touches you deepinside and scoops . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:00:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-02T14:00:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Is it possible to paste images in a message to someone on Gather?</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977133062</link>
      <description>I want to send a couple of private messages and want to have an image also to depict what I am saying but I dont' know how to get it in the message.  Does anyone know how to do this, or if it . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-30T23:36:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Question?</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977130930</link>
      <description>For those you read her articles, what happened to Bonnie who published the Serial Killer Series?  Does anyone know?</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:41:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-28T18:41:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Good Samaritan!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977130015</link>
      <description>In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.

 

On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:01:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-27T21:01:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Halloween Song</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977117000</link>
      <description>These are the words to a Halloween song I learned when I was a young girl.

 There was an old witch 

Oh believe me if you can

She tapped on my window and

She ran, ran, ran

She ran helter skelter . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:55:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-14T15:55:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Friday, September 14th Quote</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977116931</link>
      <description>&amp;quot;It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.&amp;quot; 



Takayuki Ikkaku . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:45:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-14T14:45:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Quote for Friday, 9/7</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977109478</link>
      <description> 





&amp;quot;If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-07T13:32:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Quote for Friday, 8/31</title>
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      <description>&amp;quot;Belief in yourself, belief in your abilities, will override fear almost every time. The only thing we are afraid of is what we are capable of accomplishing.&amp;quot; by Rich DiGirolamo</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-08-31T15:08:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Priceless Picture</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977101920</link>
      <description> 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:53:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lavonne www.bildurdreams.com</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-08-30T16:53:02Z</dc:date>
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