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		<title>Celebrating More Than 140 Stories of Late-Blooming Success</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here's a complete index of articles, biographies, and book reviews in the Later Bloomer archives. I hope it'll help convince you that it's truly never too late to create!]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Matthew Henson: The Extraordinary Artic Explorer You’ve Never Heard Of</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Matthew Henson was born to Black sharecroppers a year after the Civil War ended. At age 13, he became a cabin boy on a frigate to China. And at age 43, there's a good chance he "discovered" the North Pole.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Surprising Story Behind the Poem “When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple”</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The poem's actually titled "Warning" and it celebrates aging with panache. English poet Jenny Joseph wrote in 1961 at 29. Did she fulfill her own prophecy?]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[A famous quote by Bruce Sterling illuminates one trait that many Later Bloomers share: They're driven, not just by passion, but by a quirky obsession.]]></description>
		
		
		
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