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		<title>5 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, December 17th marks the 5th year since daddy died. Yesterday I sobbed uncontrollably while watching Everybody&#8217;s Fine. Robert De Niro reminds me of him. I wish I could say it gets easier over time. But it doesn&#8217;t. You just learn to cry more in private.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Decades of Swag Described by Dance Gifs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 03:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[80s swag Molly was doing the Carlton before it was cool. 90s swag Pam is so damn cool. She&#8217;s my BFF in my head. 2000s swag I was twerking and droppin&#8217; it like it was hot in college. Now, in my 30s, my knees hurt. 2010s swag #FAIL Ugh.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Song for Assata and Trayvon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t until I reach undergrad when I was formally introduced to Assata&#8217;s work through music. It wasn&#8217;t her words, but her voice on Common&#8217;s album &#8216;Like Water For Chocolate&#8217; to which I was first drawn. When she said, &#8220;Freedom? You asking me about freedom? I&#8217;ll be honest with you, I know a whole lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sexing Up Female Atheletes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following is a throwback post (#tbp) from 2008 when I was a content writer for Youthnoise.org (now Mobilize.org). With all the hoopla (like this and this) surrounding the 2008 Olympic games, how could I not add my own little one-cent to the blogosphere hoopla as sort of a week ending round up. TGIF!! Okay, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sweet Potatoes Story 1: Vol. 1 #TLTT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tara l. conley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following excerpt is part of the blogging project, The Life and Times of Tara #TLFF That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. &#8211; Emily Dickinson, Poem Number 1741 She used to imagine she&#8217;d find out while cutting sweet potatoes. Something about the monotony of slicing through tough roots felt [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Revamping The Life and Times of Tara (#TLTT)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tara l. conley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having recently been inspired by my cousin&#8217;s Facebook page, ImmaTeen, and reading all of the fascinating stories about teenage growing pains and love, I&#8217;ve decided to reconfigure The Life and Times of Tara (#TLTT) as solely a storytelling blog. I&#8217;ve been thinking about ways to revamp this space since it&#8217;s my most visited web page [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Craig Robinson On Growing Up, Coaching, and Encouraging Players</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tara l. conley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From a 2010 YouthNoise.com (now Mobile.org) interview This past week I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Oregon State University men’s basketball coach, Craig Robinson, for the Play It Forward campaign.  While I didn’t get an opportunity to ask much about his sister, First Lady Michelle Obama, coach Robinson did tell me about about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Randomly Remembering My Dad Randomly Dreaming</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tara l. conley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s been gone for almost 4 years now. I was thinking about the letter I found that he wrote right before I graduated from college. An Old Man Dreams What could have been, what might have been, what is. When life is new there are many years ahead. What are you going to be? Your dreams of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>thanks again, frank ocean.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Related: Frank Ocean Tumblr Thank You, Frank Ocean  by dream hampton via Life and Times Frank (You&#8217;re Amazing) by Rashaan Patterson via Soundcloud (mp3 download)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just to reiterate. . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that america&#8217;s past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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