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            <title>What do you know?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[For twenty years, a grinder gnawed away at my brain.&nbsp; A grinder or a rodent, sometimes, others a hammer and chisel.&nbsp; <br /><br />Twenty years, never a moment of calm, never a silence.&nbsp; No, you don't get used to it.<br /><br />Or maybe I don't.&nbsp; Inept?<br /><br />Oh, I tried, yes.&nbsp; Never able to master it, not even enough to think maybe, perhaps, wait...no, it's still there.&nbsp; Wily with new ways.<br /><br />None of this sets me apart from you or qualifies me for a blue ribbon at the county fair. The additional knowledge that you, and everyone, owns some similarly hidden pain only acted as a second grinder or mouse inside my brain.<br /><br />But yours is yours, it's a personal thing.&nbsp; I cannot speak to that.&nbsp; Mine is mine, and I aim to give you a window.&nbsp; I have learned a thing in this time, connections ease the pain.&nbsp; You don't have to feel mine yourself, but if I show it to you, if you see it, it eases both of us.<span style="margin-left: -51px; margin-top: -57px; opacity: 0.25;" class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble smarterwiki-popup-bubble-active"><span class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-body"><span class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-links smarterwiki-clearfix"><span class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-links-row smarterwiki-clearfix"><a target="_blank" title="Search Twitter" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Amid%20my%20longsufferings...." class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link"><img src="http://twitter.com/favicon.ico" alt="" class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" /></a><a target="_blank" title="Search Google" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Amid%20my%20longsufferings...." class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" alt="" class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" /></a></span><span class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-links-row smarterwiki-clearfix"><a target="_blank" title="Search Wikipedia" href="http://smarterfox.com/wikisearch/search?q=Amid%20my%20longsufferings....&amp;locale=en-US" class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link"><img src="http://static.smarterfox.com/media/wiki-favicon-sharpened.png" alt="" class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" /></a><a target="_blank" title="Search OneRiot" href="http://www.oneriot.com/search?p=smarterfox&amp;ssrc=smarterfox_popup_bubble&amp;spid=8493c8f1-0b5b-4116-99fd-f0bcb0a3b602&amp;q=Amid%20my%20longsufferings...." class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link"><img src="http://static.smarterfox.com/media/popup_bubble/oneriot-favicon.ico" alt="" class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" /></a></span></span></span><span class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-tip"></span></span><br /><br /><br /> ]]></description>
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            <title>Never is the answer.</title>
            <description>The question is...when? </description>
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