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	<title>Comments on: Happy Birthday To Me</title>
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	<description>A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz</description>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2312</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He! he!... You have it right Pete.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He! he!&#8230; You have it right Pete.</p>
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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2311</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was really confussed and a little scared.  I thought your birthday was [date removed].  I was scared that we had it wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was really confussed and a little scared.  I thought your birthday was [date removed].  I was scared that we had it wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Ivan</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2275</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Felicitaciones!!  Por favor alguien me puede decir que significa  ¿LOL?  sugh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Felicitaciones!!  Por favor alguien me puede decir que significa  ¿LOL?  sugh.</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2194</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This would never be as rewarding as it is without friends like you, Marla... Picking up the conversation, and letting me know that you&#039;re there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This would never be as rewarding as it is without friends like you, Marla&#8230; Picking up the conversation, and letting me know that you&#8217;re there.</p>
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		<title>By: Marla</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2190</link>
		<dc:creator>Marla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happy Birthday, Mafe Maria. I&#039;ve enjoyed every entry and look forward to many more. You&#039;ve taught me there is an art to the whole &quot;thinking out loud&quot; thing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Birthday, Mafe Maria. I&#8217;ve enjoyed every entry and look forward to many more. You&#8217;ve taught me there is an art to the whole &#8220;thinking out loud&#8221; thing.</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2162</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your comment is the best present. Thank you Mandarine!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your comment is the best present. Thank you Mandarine!</p>
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		<title>By: mandarine</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2161</link>
		<dc:creator>mandarine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Api beursdé tou you. Or more appropriately joyeux anniversaire.
I am honoured to be the special guest at your first birthday -- I wonder if there is some kind of present that your blog might like...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Api beursdé tou you. Or more appropriately joyeux anniversaire.<br />
I am honoured to be the special guest at your first birthday &#8212; I wonder if there is some kind of present that your blog might like&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2159</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Kim&lt;/strong&gt;,
Thank you!... Expressing things non-verbally has always been easier for me. Saying words is so hard. Writing them, drawing them, acting them... I much prefer that. Man!... Am I an introvert!...

I love to know that my writing doesn&#039;t suck too bad... I&#039;ve never thought I&#039;m any good at it. The idea of writing in English also sounded intimidating. I always thought that a lot of my way of expressing things was lost in the struggle of speaking a second language. But now I think that it translates. I&#039;m not sure — anyway, I no longer feel self-conscious about it.

&lt;strong&gt;Petie&lt;/strong&gt;,
You are sweet... (sophisticated!!!... that&#039;s crazy talk).
You and I are doing it for the same reasons. I&#039;m sure that the girls will love to have a record of all those cute little stories you probably would forget after a while. Plus, what you write about is the kind of thing that I would probably miss because of living so far from you guys. I love that Joey and I could hear all about Joelle&#039;s swimming lessons, etc. Makes us feel closer...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Kim</strong>,<br />
Thank you!&#8230; Expressing things non-verbally has always been easier for me. Saying words is so hard. Writing them, drawing them, acting them&#8230; I much prefer that. Man!&#8230; Am I an introvert!&#8230;</p>
<p>I love to know that my writing doesn&#8217;t suck too bad&#8230; I&#8217;ve never thought I&#8217;m any good at it. The idea of writing in English also sounded intimidating. I always thought that a lot of my way of expressing things was lost in the struggle of speaking a second language. But now I think that it translates. I&#8217;m not sure — anyway, I no longer feel self-conscious about it.</p>
<p><strong>Petie</strong>,<br />
You are sweet&#8230; (sophisticated!!!&#8230; that&#8217;s crazy talk).<br />
You and I are doing it for the same reasons. I&#8217;m sure that the girls will love to have a record of all those cute little stories you probably would forget after a while. Plus, what you write about is the kind of thing that I would probably miss because of living so far from you guys. I love that Joey and I could hear all about Joelle&#8217;s swimming lessons, etc. Makes us feel closer&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Petie</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2155</link>
		<dc:creator>Petie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I often tell those who know I blog that my inspiration was you.  Chris had mentioned that we should start a blog in the past, and he did actually start ours before I started contributing to it.  However, it wasn&#039;t until I saw yours and the content that I was inspired to start writing.  I have loved writing stories about my girls and hope that it will be a source of laughter and interest to them as they grow older.  

I recognize that your blog is MUCH more sophisticated and I applaud you for all your efforts and on the beauty of the writing and art.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I often tell those who know I blog that my inspiration was you.  Chris had mentioned that we should start a blog in the past, and he did actually start ours before I started contributing to it.  However, it wasn&#8217;t until I saw yours and the content that I was inspired to start writing.  I have loved writing stories about my girls and hope that it will be a source of laughter and interest to them as they grow older.  </p>
<p>I recognize that your blog is MUCH more sophisticated and I applaud you for all your efforts and on the beauty of the writing and art.</p>
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		<title>By: Kim Rodriguez</title>
		<link>http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/03/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-2151</link>
		<dc:creator>Kim Rodriguez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JAPI VERDEI MAFECITAAAAA! I have loved your blog and watching its metamorphesis...a really nice thing is that you have gotten very comfortable with it and I see a side of you in &quot;Blogerville&quot; that you don&#039;t as readily show in person.....I&#039;ve always known it was there, but you&#039;ve taken a huge step in really putting yourself out there and I applaud it! Plus you are an awesome writer and expressionist (verbal and visual)!
So here&#039;s to many more Japi Verdeis!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JAPI VERDEI MAFECITAAAAA! I have loved your blog and watching its metamorphesis&#8230;a really nice thing is that you have gotten very comfortable with it and I see a side of you in &#8220;Blogerville&#8221; that you don&#8217;t as readily show in person&#8230;..I&#8217;ve always known it was there, but you&#8217;ve taken a huge step in really putting yourself out there and I applaud it! Plus you are an awesome writer and expressionist (verbal and visual)!<br />
So here&#8217;s to many more Japi Verdeis!</p>
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