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	<title>mike ricca photography &#187; pets</title>
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		<title>&#8220;I wish I&#8217;d taken more pictures&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tasha died last Monday.

I've been watching my cursor blink for going on ten minutes now, unable to think of what to say next. Dozens of thoughts and narrative threads flood my mind but none of them feel right.]]></description>
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		<title>the sadness of pets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My entire life, I've been surrounded by animals.  When my parents took me home from the hospital thirty-five years ago, there was already a happy German Shepherd pup waiting for me.  When we first moved to the Philippines we stayed with my grandparents, who had on their very large property (among other things) twenty dogs, twenty cats, a pen of geese, a coop of doves, turtles, a parrot, and three macaque monkeys.  Yes, monkeys.  Other kids my age were lucky if their parents let them have a goldfish.  I got to hang out with monkeys.]]></description>
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		<title>whiffle</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/whiffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd always taken denial somewhat literally. When I'd think of denial, I'd think of someone consciously rejecting the truth. Someone making a concerted effort to pretend something.]]></description>
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		<title>gussy-poo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's what my sister called him. She'd brought him with her to San Francisco from Savannah when she moved in 2001, and for as long as I can remember, that's been her name for him.]]></description>
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		<title>the vet</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/the-vet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tumor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/the-vet/" title="the vet"><img src="http://focalmatter.com/blah/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/YapbThumbnailer.php?post_id=349&amp;w=180" width="180" height="144" alt="the vet" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Over the weekend I noticed an odd growth on JD&#8217;s underside, so I took him and Turk to the vet this morning to get it checked out. Four hundred bucks later, the [supposedly benign] tumor was successfully removed. It&#8217;s a funny, the lengths to which we&#8217;ll go (and pay) for the animals we designate as [...]]]></description>
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