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		<title>my baby would have been 2.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nate&#8217;s birthday was January 17th. 
to celebrate, i&#8217;m going to tell the story of his birth.
on January 12, 2007, my midwife put me on bedrest because i&#8217;d gained 3 pounds in a week and my blood pressure was high.  my mom had moved to Chicago the week before and we were still moving her in and getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=58&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>no one should ever have to do this.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


   Nathaniel C. Strasser    &#8220;Nate&#8221;
 
 


2007&#8211;2008
Nathaniel &#8220;Nate&#8221; C. Strasser, one and a half years old, of Aurora, was taken suddenly Tuesday, September 30, 2008. He was born January 17, 2007 in Aurora, IL.
Survivors include his mother, Melissa L. Strasser; and his grandmother,
Toni-Lynne Strasser.
Nate was already an experienced traveler. He loved Pittsburgh, Seattle, and had been to Las [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=33&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/no-one-should-ever-have-to-do-this/</link>
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		<title>how do you recover from being dumped over the phone&#8211;from 2000 miles away?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[apparently, Sex in the City and cookie dough.
I called my very dear and always supportive friend Leona and told her what had happened.  Of course she responded, &#8220;Thank God! He didn&#8217;t treat you right anyway.&#8221;  Now, Leona had only met Dennis once, but like many others, had heard my stories.
randomly, i think we all know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=31&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/how-do-you-recover-from-being-dumped-over-the-phone-from-2000-miles-away/</link>
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		<title>then there was the aftershock.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i can&#8217;t say that i, personally, had known depression before i got fired from HDPL.  though i&#8217;d watched Dennis struggle for years, i didn&#8217;t realize the grip it could have.  i thought i&#8217;d find another job, i thought Dennis would move out to Vegas, and i thought my life would move on.
i called Dennis on a Saturday morning.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=30&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/then-there-was-the-aftershock/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;and the walls came tumblin&#8217; down.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i never imagined such a nightmare.
i walked into work on a Wednesday.  normal day.  there was some tension about an undisclosed problem being handled by the Library Director.
in the past weeks, since Dennis left, my friends had held an intervention and we came up with a gameplan to lift my spirits and soften my approach and hopefully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=27&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>oh, and Dennis visited again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[after weeks and weeks of sappy emails and tearful phone calls, Dennis was coming!
i expected that he would help me get back to the goodness and light, but the truth is that that wasn&#8217;t really his role in my life.  that&#8217;s just not what he did.
he was miserable at his job, too.  and i think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=25&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/oh-and-dennis-visited-again/</link>
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		<title>and the walls&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by late August, i was not so enthralled with my job.  i had been hired to provide Library Services to Teens&#8211;some pretty great Teens, mind you.  HDPL had a specific Young Adult Area, one of, or maybe the first, in the State.  they made themselves out to be forward thinking, progressive. 
they lied.
i think i was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=24&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/and-the-walls-came-tumblin-down/</link>
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		<title>living Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;d packed my car.  i&#8217;d had a rain-soaked, teary goodbye with the love of my life.  i watched my mother sob when i left&#8212;this time somehow different from the other 10 times i&#8217;d moved to a different state.  i had two cats in my car and hotel reservations in St. Louis, Denver, and Las Vegas. 
i [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=23&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/living-las-vegas/</link>
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		<title>the big 1.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[my tiny baby boy just turned 1.
1 year old.
it seems like yesterday that he was in my belly. 

We had two parties.  one in Chicago and one in Pittsburgh.  this was a difficult way to celebrate.  i don&#8217;t know if i&#8217;ll do it again.  each party was wonderful.  we had cupcakes and cocktails at one and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=18&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/the-big-1/</link>
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		<title>that last month was amazing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so i was moving across the country. 
i spent my last three weeks packing up 10 years worth of stuff.  i made a deal with myself that if something cost more to move than it did to buy, i wasn&#8217;t taking it.  this ended up being most of my stuff since i was an avid Goodwill furniture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconduit.wordpress.com&blog=2024241&post=17&subd=theconduit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theconduit.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/that-last-month-was-amazing/</link>
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