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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:03:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Drug of Choice</title>
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      <description>Warning: this poem my contain words or phrases that may trigger some people... 
   
 My razor is my crack cocaine, My dope, My meth My heroin 
 And where I am right now Is on a cold turkey withdraw . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:51:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Simple Ways to Lighten someone elses' day</title>
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      <description>There are times when everyone needs something nice to happen to them. A way to brighten their day. What if you could provide that? What if you could make your day better by helping another person? 
 Here . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:43:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-13T20:43:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>even if u say that it's not possible for me to be a gay Christian, i know i exist so i know it is possible</title>
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      <description>This Conversation i had on facebook with someone from Church, my response (was my status) is at the bottom. Tell me what you think... 
 11:13pm Wesley  ok i'll bring it to the lord. How is your walk with . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-13T05:02:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Are Video Games to blame for Effeminancy?</title>
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      <description>  
 
 Recently an article I found on a high school, science teacher's classroom door blamed the Wii video game system for a rise in the increase of "effeminate violence". This struck me as one, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:16:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-11T21:16:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Censorship- another scene</title>
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      <description>Props needed: a box; hair dryer; Dunkin' Donuts cup w/ lid; container of peanuts &amp; or peanut butter; McD's bag; Tylenol PM /Lunesta &amp; Cymbalta *antidepressant* (drawn/printed images); Plastic . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:08:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-30T22:08:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>people are still... good?!</title>
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      <description>Yesterday, I was exhausted. I got home from school, laid down and just went to sleep. I woke up to my cell phone ringing. A number on the screen that I didn't recognize. Confused, I answered it. 
 "Hello? . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-28T05:30:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My Parents and The Cell Phone What are they THinking?!</title>
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      <description>On the 25th of october I was sent to the local crisis center by my school for having cut my wrists deeper than normal and for being in a depressed mental state due to issues I'd been having at home.  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:48:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-11T21:48:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>When the Craving is too Strong- Self Injury</title>
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      <description>They told me that I couldn't go to school if I didn't seek help for my "issue". I didn't understand why. I mean honestly if I was keeping it covered 99% of the time and no one could see the cuts. And . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-11T20:57:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Coming Out- please read!</title>
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      <description>[Lights come up to students sitting in chairs, down center, a small group of 5-7. in a half circle facing audience, Lighting drops to a spotlight on the center chair the first speaker stands up] 
  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:35:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-10T02:35:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mass. College Of Liberal Arts</title>
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      <description>Hello My friends, I'm a senior in High School in some no name town of Mass. I'm looking for information on the Mass. College of Liberal Arts, where I would like to go for communications (journalism) and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:50:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2009-11-02T18:50:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Help In Chemistry!!!! ASAP</title>
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      <description>Hey, i'm kind of going out on a limb here but I'm having a hard time in Chemistry class. I got put into the class only 3 weeks ago (a month late) and could legit use some help! I don't want to bother . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:30:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How To Take Advantage of Scholarship Money- School Paper Article</title>
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      <description>“There are new scholarship opportunities posted in the Guidance Office.” This announcement is made several times a year, but have you ever gone to Guidance to check out what scholarships . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-28T13:25:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Gay Is NOT the Same as Stupid</title>
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      <description>This is what the President and Vice President of the Gay/Straight Alliance presented to a room of 110 Teachers and Administrators in the beginning of October.Spread the Message  
 
   . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-28T00:01:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>teddy bear</title>
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      <description>1)      “Tomorrow is Teddy Bear day.” The teacher says to the class “So everyone bring in your favorite Teddy Bear!” 
   
 2)      . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-27T23:55:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I do not care...</title>
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      <description>It hurts, to have to listen 
 To know I cannot say a word 
 Because to say a word would mean 
 To care 
 To care would mean I’d have to share. 
 And I don’t want to care 
 Because . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-09-15T14:23:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>September 11</title>
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      <description>Eight years ago 
 
 
 Two towers fell 
 
 
 Planes crashing through 
 
 
 Bringing rubble tumbling 
 
 
 To the hard, cold ground. 
 
 
 Inside they were trying to escape 
 
 
 Caught in a fatal . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:19:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-09-15T14:19:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Forgive Me Father- poem</title>
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      <description>Forgive me Father I didn’t know- As I once walked So strongly In the ways of the world--- But now I’ve come to my senses. I’ve come to know You more. And Now, I must walk in the world . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:19:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-08-22T15:19:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>INTERVENTION Creative Writing Final- a dramatic Monologue</title>
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      <description>I don’t know what it is you want from me, but I have nothing left to give. No power left in me to do anything for you. The world and you have run me ragged, refusing for a second to let me breathe. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:42:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-06-15T13:42:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Best at the Worst @ WHS- comedic (?) monologue</title>
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      <description>It’s time for school, okay so school started like an hour ago. “I missed the bus.” No, that was my excuse yesterday… “I had a Doctor’s appointment?” No . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:58:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-06-09T12:58:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I didn't know- lyrics</title>
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      <description>I didn’t know 
 
 
 No I didn’t know 
 
 
 I didn’t know 
 
 
 No I didn’t know 
 
 
 What this place could be 
 
 
 If I’d just let me know You 
 
 
 A place of peace . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:26:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-06-04T14:26:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>This is What it's like To be Evicted</title>
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      <description>Last night I got into a fight with my stepmom, and so it turned into a fight with my dad. I had said "I'm a teenager, deal with it."  Sherrie didn't like that response. 
 Dad's idea is "I'm the landlord, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:19:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-05-29T14:19:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My Tattoos</title>
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      <description>I have a hundred or more tattoos 
 
 
 I hope you’ll never have to see 
 
 
 I don’t put them on display 
 
 
 At least not willingly 
 
 
 And my tattoos they have a story 
 
 
 Each . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:27:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-05-28T14:27:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>COMEDY The Pride of Winning- Employee of the Month</title>
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      <description>Employee of the Month  
 
 
   The Pride of Winning   
 
 
   A  Comedic Monologue  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 My blue vest gives me the power to straighten the picture that hangs crookedly on the wall . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-05-27T11:58:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Family- 4.12.09- poem or song... you tell me</title>
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      <description>I finally found a family 

 People who care what happens to me 

 It’s even better to know 

 That all of this love began 

 With just one man 

 Jesus saw me alone 

 With no Titus of my own 

 No . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:48:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-04-13T13:48:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The day My Pimp Died</title>
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      <description>My pimp is not a person, I am not a whore in the sense that I sleep around for money. Instead my pimp is a razor blade, and I am it's whore in that I always go back. The day I buried my pimp, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-04-09T14:34:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>WSC Western MA GSA Conference 2009</title>
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      <description>By Casey D. 

 
 
 

 Annually Westfield State College hosts a conference for high school Gay Straight Alliances in Western, MA to attend. This year on March 24, 2009, seven schools attended including, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:09:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-03-25T20:09:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A Mama's Hug- a poem</title>
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      <description>&amp;lt;!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --&amp;gt; 

    written 3.5.09    

  by: Casey D.  

   

  A mother,  

  pulling her crying child into her arms  

 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:33:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-03-16T13:33:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Raceway- another memoir for Creative Writing</title>
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      <description>  

   Raceway   

 By: Casey D. 

 February 10, 2009 

   

 My chopper bike is just that beneath me, a Chopper. Banana seat, sissy bar, silver fenders. Old school made new school with a license . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:05:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-02-10T14:05:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>memoir 2- Pray for the Fish</title>
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  Pray for the Fish  February 9, 2009  
 
  
 
 
 
   

 
 
  
 
 

 &amp;quot;Pray for the fish, they don't know what's coming when the sin starts rolling of the likes of him. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:47:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-02-09T20:47:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>creative writing memoir</title>
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      <description>The court room is full of people, all crowded in with only standing room left and barely any of that. Media reporters and their multitudes of technology are setting up and in my opinion taking up far . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:36:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>casey d.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-01-27T21:36:40Z</dc:date>
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