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	<title>Preserving Your History &#187; Personal Stories</title>
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	<description>Leave a legacy - preserve your family's past</description>
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		<title>Save your 9/11 stories</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/09/save-your-911-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capturing stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is collecting history by archiving stories from September 11, 2001.  Everyone has a story from that day.  Everyone was touched in some way, no matter where in the world they were.  Add your story and make history.
Make History! Share your 9/11 story
Bookmark to:
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		<title>More Aha Moments</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/07/more-aha-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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Has the Mutual of Omaha Aha Tour come to your hometown yet?  Check out their tour schedule to see if the van is going to be near you.  They are going around the country recording people&#8217;s aha moments.  Do you have one you&#8217;d like to share?
Here&#8217;s their definition of an aha moment: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legacy of the World&#8217;s Oldest Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Allingham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Allingham, the world&#8217;s oldest man, died yesterday at the age of 113.  He was the last surviving original member of the Royal Air Force and he fought &#8211; and survived &#8211; the First World War.  When he was over 100 years ago, he started to talk to groups, the press about his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seen on CNN.com: &#8220;Hear their stories.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/06/seen-on-cnncom-hear-their-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berga an der Elster]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grandparents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mourning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POWs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) &#8211;&#8221; I&#8217;ll never forget holding World War II medic Tony Acevedo in my arms. He wept and convulsed for more than 10 minutes, his body constricting and tightening in a way I&#8217;d never seen before. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; he said, repeating, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. I want to say more, but I can&#8217;t.&#8221;
This is written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who did you used to be, Dad?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/06/who-did-you-used-to-be-dad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Day next week.  What a perfect time to sit down and ask your dad&#8230;.what?  What are the things that you would need or would want to know if he wasn&#8217;t around?  Do you know why he lives where he does?  Do you know how he met your mother?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your Words Gonna Linger?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/06/linger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a story to tell?  Have you thought about writing it down but talked yourself out of it?  &#8220;No one would want to hear my story.&#8221;  Not true!  Maybe you just need some help to get started.
I would recommend you pick up a copy of &#8220;My Words Are Gonna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verbal Skeletons in Our History &#8211; The &#8220;N&#8221; Word</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/05/verbal-skeletons-in-our-history-the-n-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/05/verbal-skeletons-in-our-history-the-n-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards and Contests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My great-grandfather, Ed Rinne, was born in 1880 in Illinois.  As  a young man, he spent a short time farming with his father in Alabama.  I am lucky to have an audio interview with him done sometime in the late 70&#8217;s when he would have been 90+ years old.  But I was shocked when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Ella to read when she gets older</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/for-ella-to-read-when-she-gets-older/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/for-ella-to-read-when-she-gets-older/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The past is now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ariel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty and the Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disneyland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Space Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Little Mermaid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ella,
You probably don&#8217;t remember much about your trip to Disneyland in April of 2009.  13 grueling hours of lines and concrete and brief, wild rides.  The highlight of the day was your visit to the princesses.  Your Aunt Pam waited in line for almost 90 minutes for you.  Just as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where treasures are hiding</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/where-treasures-are-hiding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/where-treasures-are-hiding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capturing stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your family's story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[video tributes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever asked the relatives or friends you grew up with if you could take a look at their home videos and photos?
Over the past few years, I have created several tribute videos for aunts and uncles. In order to accomplish this, I had to get photos and video from my cousins.  While combing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening is Powerful Medicine</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/listening-is-powerful-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/listening-is-powerful-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite essays from the NPR show &#8220;This I Believe&#8221; entitled Listening is Powerful Medicine.  It reminds me of what a gift listening can be and how hard it is sometimes to just be present and let someone&#8217;s tale unfold. We need more people in our lives to say, as the old [...]]]></description>
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