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	<description>It&#039;s All Chiara, All The Time</description>
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		<title>Assess The Situation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She’s in Tampa now, in The Place. (Mom calls it ‘the nursing home,’ which it isn’t, but I have to call it The Place). My sister is handling everything brilliantly: the move and the first parts of the transition (there will be many more) and the first visit to the cancer center up there, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tempting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was someone to pick me up at the airport. My fridge had been filled with soup and carrots and hummus and my favourite kind of breakfast toast and some Early Grey were on the kitchen bench. There was a loaner humidifier and a whole new floor lamp in the lounge. It was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Imagine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Manya is coming to pick me up for the airport in about an hour. I have my travel outfit on: loose jersey dress, and flats, with leggings, a cardie,my toothbrush, four trashy magazines, and a change of underwear in my carry-on. I&#8217;ve said the goodbyes that need to be said and made myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are so lucky, we all say. My mother, my sister, all our friends, all the radiation techs and nurses and neurologists and social workers and clinical psychologists and registered dieticians and cancer clinic receptionists and schedulers. Everyone: “We are so lucky.” Let us count the ways: She was over 65 when she got this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting In Vain</title>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/04/10/waiting-in-vain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our road trip to Tampa to see what I’m referring to as New Places, because I cannot bring myself to say the words &#8216;Assisted Living Facility,’ the car is the last place I want to be, yesterday’s mind-numbing drive across Alligator Alley being what it is. Radiation is still at 10:15 five days a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get It Done</title>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/04/02/get-it-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up at 7:30, breakfast at 8:30, morning pills by 9:20 and in the car by 9:30 to make it to treatment in Miami Beach by 10:15. “Okay, Mom,” I say, ”please get started on your protein smoothie. Okay, Mom, please check your chart. Okay, Mom, please let this dissolve on your tongue and then rinse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gone Fast</title>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/03/21/its-gone-so-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chemo is two pills, taken at home every day. Radiation is a machine, five days a week at the hospital. I have written this information down (along with her contact information, her doctors, her medications) in a little notebook for my mother to keep in her purse for when she forgets. She looks through it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Know If There&#8217;s Anything We Can Do</title>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/03/14/let-us-know-if-theres-anything-we-can-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are doing so great. You are doing amazing. She is lucky to have daughters like you girls. I don’t pay attention when someone says something like this, I don’t even hear it. I check my phone and go on to the next thing that needs doing. The side effects will be. You should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 2012 Books</title>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/03/01/2537/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 3 You Lost Me There Eh. This got bogged down, I thought—Alzheimer’s researcher guy loses his wife in a car accident and writes a lot of grants in the lab and has sex with a student half his age and he doesn’t really love her and his best friend’s daughter comes to stay with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 2012 Books</title>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/01/31/january-2012-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I know I said I wasn&#8217;t going to write for a while, but&#8230;) Always Coming Home Ursula K LeGuin January 4 I read this at the beach, dipping in and out of it in between spooning and freezing swims and laying on the floor watching nature shows and doing the dishes. I’ve read it more [...]]]></description>
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