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		<title>How I Found: Matt</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2010/02/14/how-i-found-matt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Saturday, October 30th, 1999. I had the option to attend two different Halloween gatherings. One was close to my house in the suburbs, the other was in the city. I&#8217;m someone who wants to like Halloween. Every year around early September, I start to get all excited. I want to get the greatest [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=532&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: Nick</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2010/02/14/how-i-found-you-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did I find you, my dear Nicolas? More like how did you find me, trying hard as I was to keep my heart hidden, feet on the move. There I was, in the hot twilight of my twenties, floating in an ever-changing swirl of friends around table after table. Outwardly wanting, garishly longing for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=522&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: Abe</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2010/01/31/how-i-found-abe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I searched the crowd surreptitiously, and spotted him almost immediately.  He was 6’2 &#8211; his height and shaved-short red hair set him apart from the other students waiting at the campus bus stop.  It had been a few weeks, and he had been here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Broad-shouldered, handsome, and blue-eyed – he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=516&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: My Family</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2010/01/31/how-i-found-my-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have three tattoos, but I&#8217;m still afraid of needles. So I decided, early in my pregnancy, that I didn&#8217;t want an epidural. As you grew inside me, adding inches and pounds, pulling my belly into the shape of a melon, I started preparing myself for the pain. Your father and I went to childbirth [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=510&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: My Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found my son, Eli Zheng, while waiting for a daughter. I spent much of my thirties trying to get pregnant before my husband and I decided to adopt. In September 2004, my husband and I sent our paperwork to China, and six months later, on my brother&#8217;s birthday, I got the call from our [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=472&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: Usher</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2009/06/28/how-i-found-usher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[my dog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Austin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life had changed. The engagement was over. With good friends life was moved to Austin, TX and we are all better for this change.  Ed and I got there first.  Laid the groundwork for a home that once Clare arrived a few months later became cozy and absolutely fun. As the lease was coming to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=466&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: Lola</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2009/04/25/how-i-found-batmanlola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a long trek from my apartment in Manhattan to my parents&#8217; home in the Ozarks of Missouri. Usually I would take the standard trio: a train, a plane, and an automobile. But this time I met my boyfriend in Pennsylvania and we drove. My dad&#8217;s home cooking alone is worth the trip; on this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=442&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: You</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2009/04/25/how-i-found-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[you]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was summer; the sun was glaring but the wind was sweet on the day that I met you. I was freshly showered, slightly sunburnt, with hair wet and an openness to the day that must have attracted your curious side glances. I rode my bike to your neighbor&#8217;s pool party and was slightly out [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=438&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: Charley</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2009/04/02/how-i-found-charley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[my dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to remember how I found you because this year  I lost you.  I wanted another dog because Ms. Beesie the Cocker was sleeping too much during the day. She was only five-years-old and it was decided that she needed a playmate.  Watching the Westminster dog show, we noticed the Clumber Spaniel who won Best [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=429&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Found: My Daughter</title>
		<link>http://howifoundyou.com/2009/03/24/how-i-found-my-daughter-2/</link>
		<comments>http://howifoundyou.com/2009/03/24/how-i-found-my-daughter-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacquie F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[my daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the moment I opened the e-mail attachment like it was yesterday. No, like it was a minute ago. A second. It contained a headshot of a girl &#8212; no longer a baby, not yet a toddler &#8212; dressed in a blue and white striped t-shirt with a second yellow t-shirt draped over it, so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howifoundyou.com&#038;blog=6522484&#038;post=419&#038;subd=howifoundyou&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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