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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s near the end of the Fourth, almost time for fireworks &#8211; how was yours? Here it was hot hot hot so we did what people do; we headed to the water. I love exploring our city, preferably without guidance, and despite living her for 11 years there is much I have not seen. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merrymaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4086814&amp;post=1111&amp;subd=merrymaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriotic chocolate-dipped strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate-dipped strawberries are one of my all-time favorite treats, and when I saw the white-chocolate ones on Stephanie&#8217;s Life Tastes Like Food, I could not help to share it here. Look at these! It&#8217;s patriotic fruit* for crying out loud! I know myself well enough to know that the laborious job of dipping individual berries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merrymaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4086814&amp;post=1103&amp;subd=merrymaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Go Fourth and sparkle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Wolfe Papocchia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halloween is my favorite holiday, with Christmas and Easter vying for second. The Fourth of July? Most of my life I could take it or leave it &#8211; why? I grew up in DC. You might be thinking: Oh, DC! Fabulous 4th celebrations; what is wrong with you?? I will tell you what is wrong [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merrymaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4086814&amp;post=1073&amp;subd=merrymaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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