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	<description>An International Movement for Incest and Child Sexual Abuse Recovery</description>
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		<title>A Neglected House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marjorie McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abusive relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addictive disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A child sexual abuse victim is much like a house that desperately needs repairs. Its foundation, like the soul of a child who has been abused, is cracking and crumbling. It is living on borrowed time. The House has no idea how badly it needs restoration, how it cries out to be REPAIRed. The same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marjorie McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a tiny child I remember my mother rocking me and murmuring, “What shall I do when my baby grows up?” It was a memory that lingered for many decades, bringing comfort like the soft stroke of a hand. Despite all of the sexual abuse I suffered at the hands of my father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marjorie McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Victims get what they request,
When they entice their fate,
And lessons learned are harsh and swift,
And wisdom comes too late”
 

The above lines are from a poem I penned before I began recovery. At that time I lacked the  insight to see that I was creating my own problems and that being a perpetual victim was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maintaining Balance in Today&#8217;s World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marjorie McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Gallup poll the most important problems in the world were: the economy, primarily unemployment, followed by dissatisfaction with government, healthcare, family decline, illegal aliens, education, fear of war, poverty, Social Security, welfare, terrorism and a host of others. That’s a lot to worry about. Each of us has our own personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marjorie McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awhile back my younger sister was killed in an auto accident. She was also my close friend and my daughter. I raised her. Mom was tired of raising kids after having had four in four years so she gave Jeanne to me and said, “You raise her, I’m tired”. I was nine years old. Jeanne [...]]]></description>
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