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		<title>The 12 Biggest Surprises After Three Years in Barcelona</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When we moved to Barcelona almost three years ago, I did not do my homework. For some inexplicable reason, there was none of my typical meticulous research of Spanish and Catalan history nor of the city of Barcelona. It was late 2023, and we were still dealing with the aftermath of Covid, and even more,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Things I Can Live Without (Thank You Barcelona)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Gina and I enjoyed coffee on our terrace this morning, savoring the first coolish day after four or five summer heat domes, I asked her what she can live without, now that we have lived in Barcelona for almost three years. Here is the list we came up with: A Car—We do not miss...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Questions for My 70-Year-Old Self (I Am 68)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two years from now, I turn seventy. I have questions. Hell, I always have questions. I recently read that our current years move and change so fast that each year is equivalent to one hundred years of the past. Or maybe it just feels that way. So here they are. A list of questions I...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Letter to My 28-Year-Old Self (I Am 68 Now)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forty years, kiddo. Forty years since you lay in bed with a book called&#160;Communication: The Key to Your Marriage&#160;open on your lap after eleven years together with your first wife (yes, there will be another-but that is another letter) and told each other the truth about your pasts. Forty years since you first realized you...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Evangelical Worship Mutual Masturbation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A megachurch pastor said it to me over lunch, as we talked openly, like a man finally handing off a weight he’d carried alone too long. Early thirties, built like a swimsuit model, the kind of face that makes a congregation’s collective pulse spike the second the lights come up. Charisma dripping off him the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Five Meals I Will Never Forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I anticipate a meal at the three-Michelin-star and Italy’s #1 restaurant Ristorante Piazza Duomo in Alba in September for our fifteenth anniversary, it made me think back to the best meals of my life. I have been fortunate to travel the world and dine at some of the greatest restaurants. Here are the five best meals...]]></description>
		
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