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	<description>Rasmenia is the alter-ego (&amp; middle name) of Jacquelynn Massoud - an expat from a small town in Colorado now living in Paris, France. When the schizoid, sarcastic, writer from America married a French computer geek, they put their heads together to create this blog telling of their amusing adventures &amp; observations in the world.</description>
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		<title>Broken Abroad</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Soon. &#8220;BROKEN ABROAD is a collection of stories about nine different Americans in Europe. They are not searching for traces of their ancestors. They&#8217;re searching for themselves, for the...<br/>
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		<title>Ciao For Now, Argentina</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[For our last full day in Salta &#38; our final free day in Argentina, we&#8217;d planned another tour. This one, however, was a bit different. This time, our guide &#38; driver were two separate...<br/>
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		<title>Single-Serving Friends in Salta</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know much about Salta. I was told there would be wine &#38; mountains &#8212; not wee fucking hills, but proper mountains. That&#8217;s all I need to know. I don&#8217;t require much...<br/>
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		<title>Business in Buenos Aires</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The reason we went to Buenos Aires had nothing at all to do with fun. It was all about work. Specifically, Olivier&#8217;s job. Occasionally, the company he works for sends people to Argentina, or...<br/>
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		<title>The Airplane Personality Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I hate flying. When I was a kid, I traveled by plane often, as many children of divorced parents do. Back then, it was a fun &#38; exciting adventure. Because I was a wee one traveling alone, I...<br/>
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		<title>A Story About Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I got my first and last gun, I was in the morning kindergarten class. The bus dropped me off after school and I&#8217;d watch TV in the living room while eating my lunch. Old reruns of some of...<br/>
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		<title>Writing a Frankenstory: Reality in Fiction</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.&#8221;  -S. E. Hinton &#8220;Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche....<br/>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.&#8221;  -Peter Abelard<br/>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am not going to wish you a Merry Christmas. I am not going to wish you Happy Holidays, a Happy New Year, or even Happy Ass Slap from an Expensive Hooker. No matter what we say anymore,...<br/>
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		<title>The Unintentional Comedy of French Movie Titles</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[It recently occurred to me that I haven&#8217;t made fun of any French weirdness in quite a while. I mean, it&#8217;s been like, 2 whole blog posts ago. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;d stopped...<br/>
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