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	<title>Robert Gerard Hunt</title>
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	<description>Stories.  Commentary.  Endorphins.               Updated every Friday.</description>
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		<title>Cents And Sensibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm no numismatist, but I do like coins. Of all the humble, ordinary objects that are a part of our everyday existence, they are among my favorites. I enjoy the jangle of change in my pocket, the durable thinness of a dime, the palpable heft of a quarter, the smooth circumference of a nickel, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/05/18/cents-and-sensibility/</link>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Minneapolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Instant funny. Traffic was backed up for four miles on the southbound lanes of I-35 near Huxley, Iowa on Tuesday afternoon as crews labored to clean up a spilled semitrailer load of Jell-O pudding cups. Meanwhile, a mere 25 miles away, former Jell-O spokesman Bill Cosby was a featured speaker at the Get Motivated "business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/05/11/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-minneapolis/</link>
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		<title>Grandpa, Sasquatch &amp; Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Priceless proof in the absence of memory. My paternal grandfather died at the age of 86 when I was twelve years old. Given the fact that he lived just around the next block during the entire time I knew him, it seems only natural that I would have many memories of our brief time together. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/05/04/grandpa-sasquatch-me/</link>
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		<title>Cans &#8216;n&#8217; Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The forlorn, former home of Cans 'n' Stuff The street on which I was raised runs nearly three quarters of a mile, a straight line along its entire length. We lived almost dead center, whence I could pedal my bike a satisfying distance in either direction. On the west end of the avenue lived Big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/04/27/cans-n-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Tablechair!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, Brian and I had little to say to each other due to the icy chasm of our eight years difference in age. We had few common interests, after all. Not until I reached adolescence did our cold war start to thaw, a more or less civil diplomacy emerging in the unlikeliest of venues: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/04/20/tablechair/</link>
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		<title>Billion Dollar Maybe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting by the front windows at a table adorned with a small vase of fresh-cut daisies and miniature yellow roses, clacking away at my laptop while sipping from a large mocha espresso. It is mid-morning, well after the breakfast rush and still more than an hour away from the onset of the lunch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/04/13/billion-dollar-maybe/</link>
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		<title>Good Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Them Catholics sure know how to make themselves miserable, let me tell you. I know, 'cause I used to work with one. Fred Murphy, that was his name, he used to work down in the supply cage, only decent guy in the whole department. Everybody on the shop floor knew to go to Freddy if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/04/06/good-friday/</link>
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		<title>Cafeteriphobia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kneeling at the altar where one day their children would be served tater tots. A big cafeteria. That's what you need if you're planning on running an institution that teaches children from first through eighth grade. St. Gerard, my elementary and middle school alma mater, met that requirement with room to spare. As a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/03/30/cafeteriphobia/</link>
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		<title>ABBA Reconsidered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the 70's, I heard my fair share of pop music, mostly as I dawdled over a bowl of cereal while our local AM radio station spun tunes in between news updates and weather forecasts. WIMA programmed an adult contemporary playlist that was as digestible at the breakfast table as it was suitable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/03/23/abba-reconsidered/</link>
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		<title>Green Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why learn to balance on two wheels when you don't have to? I don't remember exactly when I learned to ride a bicycle, but I'm pretty sure I was the last of my peers to acquire the skill. I have a vague notion that it wasn't even necessarily my idea. Somehow we ended up borrowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertgerardhunt.com/2012/03/16/green-machine/</link>
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