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		<title>The Bully Who Wouldn’t Leave the Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunday night, MetLife Stadium, and Spain had just beaten Argentina to win the World Cup. Rodri stood at the edge of the trophy platform, seconds from the moment his whole career had been circling toward. The hoist, the roar, the flag, gold confetti raining down on a team that had earned every inch of it....]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Feminine Evolution in Nude Watercolors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thirty-four watercolors spanning twenty-four years of integration They all are asking one question: Who is this woman within? Every painting below expresses it in different ways: rooms, marriages, and countries. Look at them in order. The pictures do the questioning here — my words simply hold the door open. These are thirty-four of over two...]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Search of My Feminine Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She turns out to be legion. I asked Claude AI to read every dream I journaled over seven years and assess every nude I have painted over twenty, and to count the women inside them. The number that came back was not small. Hundreds of them, named and unnamed, real and invented, across over one...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Man in the Mirror (I’m asking him to change his ways)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After I published my essay wrestling with femininity, a gay man named Chris (who is a kindred spirit) left a powerful comment that I have not been able to shake. He wrote about the revulsion so many conservative men and self-styled alpha males feel toward gay men, and he named it with a clarity I...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Boy on the 920&#8217;s Shelf</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Historical Novel Society has selected&#160;The Mysteries of Barcelona&#160;for a review that is forthcoming this fall in the&#160;Historical Novels Review Magazine and Website. The news transported me straight back to an elementary school library, decades gone. In sixth grade I found the biography section of my school library, Dewey 920, the numbers stamped in black...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Protected: Seventy-One: Gina&#8217;s Birthday Shoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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