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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Although I don&#8217;t listen to much Christmas music, I do have a few favorites.This is one of them.Headphones are definitely recommended.#love #Christmas #take6 #jazz]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Doves Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[*with the passing of Ethyl Kennedy, it was time to let this little dove fly. I&#8217;ve been a musician for the better part of 45 years but of the 2,000+ weddings, parties, cocktail hours, St. Patrick&#8217;s Days, club dates and bar/bat mitzvah&#8217;s I&#8217;ve played there&#8217;s only one that takes the cake above all the others.Oddly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Milton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first thing I thought of when I heard the name &#8216;Milton&#8217; as a hurricane, I laughed. What a silly ass name for a hurricane of its proportions.Milton is a milquetoast name at the very best.Milton?Make my tea.Milton?Please take Muffy in the backyard by the flower garden to pee. Coming from New England, I&#8217;ve had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Goodbyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Goodbyes are hardmuch like the cherished purple balloon that got away on that godforsaken windy day and flew into a cyan sky, one warm summer dayfloating up into the great unknown where God somehow finds it, cradles it, before sending it back downto the earth as a babyShe was never yours to begin with so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>King of the Clowns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had come to Falmouth on Cape Cod to attend a surprise party for a close friend who was turning forty. His name was Michael, a dear friend and an almost carbon copy of Albert Brooks from &#8216;Defending your life&#8217;, curly hair and all.The party went off without a hitch and while it was great [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Disgruntled Tobacconist (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.&#8221; &#8211; Samuel Clemens Years ago I worked for a tobacconist in Boston. The shop had been a city icon for over 150 years.They sold Cuban cigars when they were legal, that by itself is impressive.There was an old tale that lived inside the store for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One day in September</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts from many years ago. I went to Cape Cod years ago for a few days while dealing with my Mom and Dad who were in varying degrees of dementia.I was a proverbial mess, tbh, my mind, my body, my life.I needed a getaway, My wife agreed, wholeheartedly.My best friend Michael (Deg), took me [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bad Disciple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[-Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. I was raised Roman Catholic and belonged to an Irish family with roots all the way back to the motherland. Cork, Donegal, Galway and several other counties I couldn’t even begin to pronounce. My family was Irish with O’Briens, Murphy’s, Brosnihan’s, Flynn’s so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Navigating the Treacherous Waters of Car Sales: A Cautionary Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;May the odds be ever in your favor.&#8221; &#8211; Effie Trinket “May the odds be ever in your favor,” a sarcastic quip that seemed more fitting for the dystopian world of literature than the mundane reality of car sales.&#160;Yet, as I reflect on my years spent peddling vehicles in Massachusetts and Florida, it rings truer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was younger I spent most of my summer at a place we called‘the Camp’, a bare bones — no frills house set on a hill deep in the woods of Boylston, Mass.From the front porch you could see the ripples of Rocky Pond below sparkling in the summer sun; it was a pond [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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