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		<title>Forever Young (and Other Rants)</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/forever-young-and-other-rants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Wires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WTF?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoptee identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoptees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult adoptees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all-look-same]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angry adoptees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[can't see 'em]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invisible adoptees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean adoptees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial identity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[***Did you read the post title?  You have been warned&#8230;***
This is not a post about the report itself  (sorry, no link).  Or the content, or the conclusions, or the potential impact, or really anything meaningful at all.
It&#8217;s about the cover.
The report itself, in the Executive Summary, boasts of turning to &#8220;the experts: adult adoptees&#8221;.  Wow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3743&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Front Page?</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/front-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Wires]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At this very moment, a story about adult adoptees is currently on the front page of the New York Times web page.
It almost makes up for all that Relative Choices crap from 2 years ago.
Almost.
*******************************
The article highlights a study that supposedly says many of the things that adult adoptees have been saying for years &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3759&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes My Language Partners Make Me Cry</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/sometimes-my-language-partners-make-me-cry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and miles to go before I'm fluent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversation exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gains and losses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hey jealousy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invisible dust and other things that make me cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning Korean]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I &#60;3 my language partners.
I never thought that I would have much to say to two guys who are almost 10 years younger than me, but oddly enough I do.
Having a truly equitable language partner relationship that works effectively for both parties is tricky. It requires a close match not only in terms of skill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3646&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Luck, Ken</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/good-luck-ken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea who Ken Hill is, except that he is an adult domestic adoptee who is looking for his biological parents.  He writes:
-Searching for biological parents
-Male Adoptee:
-Born May 2nd, 1970 at Virginia Mason in Seattle.
-Weighed 4lbs, 9oz
-Father was Senior in High School, ASB President, skilled in logic and debate.
-Mother was Junior in High [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3713&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow Trees</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/yellow-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long distance relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOT every day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yellow trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember a time when I was in college and LB was visiting me, and we were walking across the campus on the kind of fall day that I can only describe as a gift.  Not too cool, not too warm; the leaves on the trees popping with color to the point where I felt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3691&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s At Times Like This</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/its-at-times-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; that I wish I prayed.
Sending peace and warm thoughts tonight
to a friend who needs them more than I do.
&#60;3 &#60;3 &#60;3
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		<title>NOT Every Day</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/not-every-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/?p=3678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I think I&#8217;m averaging about a post a month here these days, I am certainly not going to post every day during the month of November.  (We can just call it NO-Na-Blo-Po-Mo.)  But I do want to try and post more, however mundane or trite or non-adoption related (or short) it might be.
Some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3678&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quoted</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/quoted/</link>
		<comments>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/quoted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Canadian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[force-feeding culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotalicious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reappropriate!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/?p=3632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ETA:  The words I chose to quote below are actually written by Reappropriate blogger Jenn about her own experience, even though her original post was about Chris Chu, Cabinet Secretary. Please click here to read Jenn&#8217;s full post and get the original context from which this was excerpted.  I&#8217;ll try and remember to elaborate my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3632&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Undecided</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/the-undecided/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indecisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regret]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/?p=3621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that I am worse at making decisions than other people.  Although in truth I&#8217;m probably about average, it feels like I end up regretting more and more&#8230;. that I can&#8217;t decide anything right.
I regret doing things that I wish I hadn&#8217;t, and not doing things that I wish I had.  While other people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3621&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Often and Early&#8230; for Dawn!</title>
		<link>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/vote-often-and-early-for-dawn/</link>
		<comments>http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/vote-often-and-early-for-dawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sang-Shil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoptive parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://notsocalm.wordpress.com/?p=3604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:  Thanks everyone for voting for Dawn; she won the &#8220;Best Adoption Blog&#8221; prize and I am so happy!  I&#8217;d like to give a special thanks to anyone who came here from Resist Racism and clicked just because I said to.
So there&#8217;s this little &#8220;Best Blog&#8221; contest going on at some parenting web site called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notsocalm.wordpress.com&blog=2172315&post=3604&subd=notsocalm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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