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		<title>Create Space in Your Life to Find Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Daily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think an essential part of the grieving process is what I've heard called
"liminal space," or a time between things. 
If you've had significant loss in
your life, you know that there is a time period ...]]></description>
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		<title>Using Antidepressant Medication in Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Tousley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question from a Reader:  About four weeks ago, I came off an antidepressant which allowed the unresolved grief issues over my brother&#8217;s death to surface. I believe that the antidepressant kept me from fully grieving ...]]></description>
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		<title>Woman&#8217;s Story is One of Loss and Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Cole of Wayne, Mich., can still close her eyes and hear her mother’s reaction the moment her parents were notified that her brother had been killed. He was the same brother who returned after being ...]]></description>
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		<title>Six Months After Sister&#8217;s Murder, an Arrest and More Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley Wiles-Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my sister was murdered in her home in September of 2009, my life changed forever. The questions that flood your mind in these circumstances are unbearable. Not knowing who murdered my sister was all-consuming.
Every ...]]></description>
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		<title>Following Sister&#8217;s Murder, Questions Abound</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley Wiles-Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of us have watched the news, listened to the terrible details of a homicide and thought to ourselves &#8220;that poor family&#8221;? I would venture to say most of us have had that thought. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer Catches Up With Military &#8216;Hero&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jane R. Westerfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As told by Anthony J. Amoroso:
Heroes aren’t supposed to be ordinary.  Yet that’s what my brother was:  an ordinary guy living his life the best he knew.

If he was just an ordinary guy, what was ...]]></description>
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		<title>First Hours After a Sister&#8217;s Murder: Big Questions</title>
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		<comments>http://opentohope.com/dealing-with-loss/death-of-a-sibling/first-hours-after-a-sisters-murder-big-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley Wiles-Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people have suffered some kind of loss of a loved one through death.  Personally, I’ve lost both sets of grandparents, my father, two uncles and four aunts, not to mention family friends.  
 
But nothing prepared me ...]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering &#8216;My Sister and My Best Friend&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://opentohope.com/dealing-with-loss/death-of-a-sibling/8295/</link>
		<comments>http://opentohope.com/dealing-with-loss/death-of-a-sibling/8295/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lyn Prashant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My beloved sister Donna was a gentle, loving, caring soul. She was my trusted confidant, my witness, my cheerleader, and my best friend. She died September 6, 2002, at age 49. 
Donna was was born three-and-a-half ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing the Experience of being a &#8216;Twinless Twin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Pountney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The emotions I felt were mirrored in other twinless twins I met.  Just listening, for the first time, to other twins tell their story of loss and what it meant for them to lose their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Without My Twin: Reflections On A Road Traveled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Pountney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new twin joined our twinloss Yahoo group. He has recently lost his twin. I related to his words about how we draw strength from our connection to our twin. The intrinsic nature of twin ...]]></description>
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