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		<description><![CDATA[Writer and teach Margot Case offered a brilliant workshop at he Richard Hugo House Write-O-Rama workshop entitled Ordinary People. We read excerpts from “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” by Donald Bartheleme, Sixty Stories.
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		<description><![CDATA[I only got a couple of hundred words today because I&#8217;m desperately working on writing some training materials for a presentation on Monday. I&#8217;m taking a bit of extra effort on the materials because I hope to recycle them on my web site and with other clients, but it&#8217;s proving an enormous time and energy [...]]]></description>
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