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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>The Enshittification of Interesting Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guinness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influencers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m not going to ask if you’ve noticed it. I know you have. Some things aren’t as fun as they used to be. The internet was once a strange playground of niche communities populated with GeoCities sites and chatrooms. There’s still a bit of that if you take the time to look, but it’s mostly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>No More Comforting Lies</title>
		<link>https://www.rasmenia.com/2026/02/02/no-more-comforting-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two decades. That’s what I celebrated on New Year’s Day. Twenty years since I boarded a plane in Denver to start a new life in Paris. So many things have come and gone during that time. Lessons. Loss. Lifetimes. A few days after toasting that anniversary, I buttoned up my black suit over my very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another Invisible Ghetto</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[A Literary Life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey, y’all&#8230; I wrote another book. It’s a novel. It’s also short stories. It’s illustrated. It’s years of my life distilled into around 300 pages. And it’s currently available for pre-order. However&#8230; if you are interested in obtaining a paperback copy before the December 2nd release date, you can get one. If you click this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Road to Nowhere</title>
		<link>https://www.rasmenia.com/2025/09/23/the-road-to-nowhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Back in the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ozzy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hated Ozzy. It wasn’t his fault. The blame belongs to the man who tried to kill me. Like all mistakes, my entanglement with that man had a before and after. Before him, I was a fan of Ozzy. Ozzy rocked. He was danger and rebellion. For a kid growing up in the 80s, that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>There Was a Girl</title>
		<link>https://www.rasmenia.com/2025/06/13/there-was-a-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was a girl with strawberry blond hair woven into a braid that hung down the length of her back. Her blue eyes reflected the sky and absorbed everything beneath it as she sat next to the window in the school bus talking about Supergirl and Wonder Woman. About Spiderwoman and Batgirl and how Huntress [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Art Awards, Americanism, and Arnold</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1970s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The art award was a big deal. The level of fanfare was off the charts. If you were one of the lucky winners, you’d have some fantastic swag to prove your artistic bona fides, including a Certificate of Recognition, a placement ribbon, and an American flag pin. Yeah, just like the one politicians tack on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Year I Forgot How to Live but Didn’t Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death in the family]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[No matter how things go wrong, it’s always a blindside. Life goes tits up on a fucking dime. There’s no warning. No easing into the skid. One day, it’s all systems nominal. The next you’re crashing down to Earth, staggering through the wreckage, reaching out for something solid to steady yourself for one goddamn second [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Laughing Through the Blood</title>
		<link>https://www.rasmenia.com/2024/09/11/laughing-through-the-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7-11]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got the shopping cart for Xmas when I was 3 years old. Immediately, I began planning a shopping trip to 7-11. No, not a grocery store. Just as I would later insist as a stoned teenager craving a Super Big Gulp and risky nachos, it had to be the goddamn 7-11. The adults informed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Feel So Different</title>
		<link>https://www.rasmenia.com/2023/09/26/i-feel-so-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People crowd the street, most of them women with flecks of silver in their hair and lines on their face etching a map back to who they used to be: young women full of joy and anguish. Weird, creative girls trying to survive the constant pressure of what parents, friends, schools, and institutions said they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>That Shiny Newfangled Technology Can’t Do the Work for You</title>
		<link>https://www.rasmenia.com/2023/07/03/that-shiny-newfangled-technology-cant-do-the-work-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The venue reeks of cheap coffee. Creaks and groans of tables and chairs dragging on the hardwood floor echo, bouncing off the high ceiling. Barely audible beneath it all is the mumbling of socially awkward writers mingling in the early morning. The chipped folding tables are covered with cloths. Stacks of books and displays are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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