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		<title>25 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     My mom’s casual comment to me years ago has always stuck with me.  She said she had been with Dad longer than she had been with her parents.  I never understood why that would matter because, aren’t our parents with us always? Who cares which one has more impact on your life? You never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=114&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Aisle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two little words: An image captured in our mind. The dream of a little girl.  The hope of a Bride-to-be. In one silly car ride several years ago, we were driving home from Columbia. A picture-perfect scene: Parents in the front seat, children in the back seat. We’d done this a thousand times, however, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=101&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Standard Bearer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An accurate reflection of your value on this Earth is measured best when you leave this world.  Sgt. Ray Cooper lived his life as a giver, a protector, a gentle giant. The comments made about him reflect a man who mattered. From his days of working as a butcher, to his years as a police [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=86&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Transitioning Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m fearful that 2010 will bring on an avalanche of changes and emotions. If ever I needed to keep a check-and-balance over my life, this will be the year. When Dad died in 1994, I wasn’t prepared. I had never buried a parent. I was pregnant with Madison.  “One door opens and another one closes” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=84&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birth Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter where the &#8220;grandkids&#8221; live, they&#8217;ll have a piece of Centralia in their soul. This is where my Mom and Dad lived from the late 50&#8242;s until the day they died. And this is where we all came back to like fireflies, like nomads, like magnets.  Easters, Thanksgiving, birthdays, 4th of July,  Arbor Day, Bastille [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=69&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflectors</title>
		<link>http://centraliamatters.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/reflectors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We would soon be crime victims. Christmastime 1987.  Mike &#38; I had been married 2 years, living in Martinsburg, Mike&#8217;s hometown.  I was asked back to KCMQ-KTGR and needed radio again after the birth of Meghan in June 1987.  Martinsburg was the loneliest time in my life.  I needed home.  In Centralia, we rented from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=56&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty Pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a modern-day miracle when my girls say, &#8220;Hey, Mom, you&#8217;ve folded enough clothes.  Let us put those away.&#8221;  That would be equivalent to hearing, &#8220;Mom, there is absolutely NO way you&#8217;re going to get out of getting a back rub from us&#8221; or &#8220;Just let me vacuum a little longer.&#8221;  I&#8217;m never going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=39&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She Waited</title>
		<link>http://centraliamatters.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/she-waited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I let her take care of me. She did a good job of it, no argument from me.  She made my bed until the day I left home. Magically, my dirty clothes were cleaned and appeared in my closet and drawers within a few hours of putting them in the hamper (that&#8217;s where they belonged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=30&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Familiarity</title>
		<link>http://centraliamatters.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/familiuarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born and raised in Centralia, I have a true love affair with this town. In high school (&#8220;We&#8217;re great, we&#8217;re great, we&#8217;re great, we&#8217;re the Class of 78&#8243;) when classmates would grunt the traditional Senior chant of &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to get out of THIS town&#8221;, I would always wonder what this town had done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=14&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call Me By Name</title>
		<link>http://centraliamatters.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come with many names: My given first name that I only use on official paperwork and sounds odd even to my ears when I hear it said in reference to me.  My nickname, which symbolizes my teenage sister&#8217;s maturity when Mom let her name me in the summer of 1960.  My maiden name, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centraliamatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10112717&amp;post=1&amp;subd=centraliamatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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