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		<title>Oh Give Me a Home. Preferably With Closets.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In which Amy Shearn discovers that trying to find a decent 2-bedroom apartment in New York is more difficult than spotting a unicorn making love to a liger while sliding down a rainbow.  Not that she finds that, either.]]></description>
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		<title>A Lonely Jew on Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the TNB New York Literary Experience, Amy Shearn confesses: there is nothing like a shiny, secular, Santa-filled Christmas to warm the wintry cockles of a Jewish girl's heart. ]]></description>
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		<title>Disparate Housewives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New mother Amy Shearn considers her own bad housekeeping and the pleasant messiness of life with a baby.]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Words: My Grandmother and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Shearn remembers her relationship with her grandmother, an aspiring writer.]]></description>
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		<title>A Memo to the Department of Labor, part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New mother Amy Shearn discusses life with a new baby, or tries to anyway (she's really tired).]]></description>
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		<title>A Memo to the Department of Labor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uh, hello, evolution? A very pregnant Amy Shearn has some issues with the whole pregnancy system situation.]]></description>
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		<title>The Laid-Off Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feel like firing a pregnant lady?  Fine.  She probably doesn't feel like working anyway.]]></description>
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		<title>The Quietest Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Shearn tries not to get irritated by people.  It proves to be very difficult.]]></description>
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		<title>I See Pregnant People</title>
		<link>http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ashearn/2008/11/i-see-pregnant-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you're trying to get pregnant, all of the sudden there are pregnant ladies everywhere.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bathrobe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can a bathrobe have magical powers?]]></description>
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		<title>It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going on tour for one's first book is not always all glitz and glamour.  Or any, actually.]]></description>
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		<title>Corner Store Wars</title>
		<link>http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ashearn/2008/09/corner-store-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a Brooklyn neighborhood is <em>too</em> convenient, how is a lazy shopper to choose?]]></description>
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		<title>My Life in Midtown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Shearn strolls down the street in Manhattan and sees some things.]]></description>
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