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		<title>Finale</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/finale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this blog was going to reach its end at some time, and that time is now.
So many times I&#8217;ve sat at the keyboard wanting to write the truth as I saw it.  And, I realized that the kind of truths I see in my mind&#8217;s eye today and probably for many years to come should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=638&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With God and the U.S. dollar on our side&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Egyptian court on Thursday jailed two Christian Egyptian-American couples for two years in a high profile illegal adoption case in mainly Muslim Egypt.
&#8220;We believe they are not guilty &#8230; They adopted children and this is not a crime. Even in Egyptian law this is not a crime,&#8221; Saleh told Reuters.
It said the couple had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=626&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When an &#8220;orphan&#8221; is not an orphan</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/when-an-orphan-is-not-an-orphan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Jaimy for forwarding this article on to me&#8230;
Chinese Orphans Adopted Overseas Finding Home
It&#8217;s a translated account of a 17-year-old boy named Christian who was adopted from China. It&#8217;s yet another testament to how scandalously children enter child welfare institutions, are given the label of &#8220;orphan&#8221;, shipped off to another country and then encouraged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=624&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imprisoned</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/imprisoned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following two articles about the burqa got me thinking&#8230;
The chador and feminism don&#8217;t always fit
The politics of the veil
After I read them, two images slammed together in my mind, telling me I was on to something&#8230;

Don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m being too flippant with the messages and/or stereotypes behind these images. Don&#8217;t know what my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=616&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thin Lizzy&#8217;s Orphanage</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/thin-lizzys-orphanage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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Was collecting some songs by Thin Lizzy on imeem and decided to look into the band&#8217;s history. They were an Irish band, and I&#8217;m sure this is already well known by hard rock afficionados, but Lizzy&#8217;s frontman, Phil Lynott, was of mixed race &#8211; his father was Afro-Brazilian and his mother was Caucasian.
Another curiousity is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=609&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rita Dove&#8217;s poem Parsley</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/rita-doves-poem-parsley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like YouTube. Like, REALLY LIKE IT. It&#8217;s as if you stepped into thousands of people&#8217;s storage spaces where each of them has kept hundreds of home movies and they allow you to take a peak into their lives through video &#8211; no matter how boring or scandalous.
So, I favorited a video of Rita [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=605&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Issue 3 of Conducive Magazine</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/issue-3-of-conducive-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This issue of Conducive Magazine features the topic of international adoption from six adoptees who are leading the charge against the silence instilled in us.
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION REFORM !



 Tagged: adoptee, adoption, conducive, corruption, industry, international, magazine, publish, reform, TRA      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=613&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is It</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/it-is-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness is fleeting. If I&#8217;ve ever felt joy in doing anything or being anything, I&#8217;ve lost it.
No, it&#8217;s never too late to get it back; it&#8217;s never too late to fight for whatever I fancy at the moment. But, there&#8217;s also a point of no return. There&#8217;s a point where I need to reinvent myself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=599&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Nothing</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/my-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I run across something in this life of mine and it&#8217;s so beautiful that I don&#8217;t want to write about it; I don&#8217;t want to ruin it.
I don&#8217;t exactly want to savor it either. Just look, admire and let it go. I&#8217;m not anyone&#8217;s keeper. I don&#8217;t want to make anything or anyone my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=596&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My article in Conducive Magazine</title>
		<link>http://borrowednotes.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/my-article-in-conducive-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Price We All Pay: Human Trafficking in International Adoption
Adoption is already steeped in the legacy of loss for the child and his family. Add to this the recent revelations of the selling of babies for adoption in countries like Vietnam and India, and one needs only to reconsider who exactly is benefiting from adoption. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=borrowednotes.wordpress.com&blog=3100333&post=593&subd=borrowednotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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