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	<title>Followed Lingling as She Gave Lymphoma a Beatdown</title>
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	<description>a mom fights lymphoma and a husband writes it all down</description>
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		<title>halfway to what</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/halfway-to-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[againness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[irish twins at subway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[there was a holiday party at our adoption agency,
so we went.
lydia ignored the carolers and ate caramel corn,
pushed buttons in the elevator.
leanne and i looked around the room at all the other
families with their adopted kids.
we met our caseworker in the hallway.
&#8220;i saw tina,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;where?&#8221;
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		<title>signed, sealed, delivered</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/signed-sealed-delivered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[she&#8217;s ours.
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>return to sender</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/return-to-sender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[when leanne was pregnant with our second child,
before the lumps on her neck and everywhere else and
before the dirty mri and before
before the winter with too much cold
leanne went out and bought one thing
for the baby, a pair of these:






she put them in the closet or down in the basement
with all of lydia&#8217;s old baby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luchalee.wordpress.com&blog=678625&post=360&subd=luchalee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>at 3am, you can usually hear sprinklers</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/at-3am-you-can-usually-hear-sprinklers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[spinning themselves around and releasing water.
you can usually hear
the train and the crickets
and the hot water heater clicking on and off.
but last night i didn&#8217;t hear any of those things
because lydia was crying.
a nightmare.
what is it, leanne asked.
still half her body submerged in the dream,
lydia sobs -
you were supposed to not draw it that way.
leanne, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luchalee.wordpress.com&blog=678625&post=357&subd=luchalee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>two arms</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/two-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[on saturday, i woke up at 5:30am.
leanne said i looked old.
i felt old.
i took a sharpie and wrote a name on each forearm.
pumped up my bike tires and ate three bananas
and slipped on my purple and green jersey
and sat on a hard, hard seat
and rode 100 miles
again.
for cancer.
or in hatred of cancer.


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		<title>so the last</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/so-the-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[comment on the last
post was this:
&#8220;Congrats on your new daughter. I am an adoptive mother. When my son came home to us we gave out very few details about his birth family and the circumstances surrounding his adoption. My husband and I felt very strongly that this is our son’s story to tell, not ours. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luchalee.wordpress.com&blog=678625&post=350&subd=luchalee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>leave the smiling</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/leave-the-smiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[to the ladies:

leanne&#8217;s been sporting extra cleavage
to distract away from her chemo port scar.
it seems to be working.
rena is 13 days old today.
i fed her in a parking lot.
it was glorious.
a glorious parking lot
with a dad
and a baby
and spaces waiting
for cars.
&#8212;&#8211;
last week leanne took rena down
to meet tina for lunch.
mario came too.
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>did i mention</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/did-i-mention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[that tina (the birthmom)
refused an epidural?
she wanted to feel it, she said.
leanne said (to me):
what a time to decide to say no to drugs.
tina said (to leanne):
this is a way to show the baby that i care.
i said (to tina):
you&#8217;re a rockstar.
rena&#8217;s meconium came back clean today.
no trace of drugs, no trace of nothing.
&#8212;
two hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luchalee.wordpress.com&blog=678625&post=335&subd=luchalee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>and then</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/and-then-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[at 5:25pm, after 9 strange hours and 3 strange pushes,
rena rose
came out.
four parents, standing there,
passing her from love to love
almost two years to the day
when we thought the baby
would come out of leanne.
a slightly different route.
&#8212;-
just now, tina&#8217;s mom stopped by with tina&#8217;s two daughters.
they wanted some alone time with rena.
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>make sure</title>
		<link>http://luchalee.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/make-sure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tina is in the bed
the new american bible is in her purse
mario is at one end of the couch.
tina&#8217;s aunt is at the other.
they have not started the induction yet.
tina pees.
the nurse puts the monitor on tina&#8217;s belly and finds the heartbeat.
leanne is in a chair with a look somewhere close to bewildered.
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