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		<title>At Home on the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[homeless]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Walmart parking lot in Butte, Montana resembled a campground. More than twenty RVs, campers and travel trailers were parked on the outskirts when we arrived in the late afternoon. The vehicles varied from top-of-the-line, bus-shaped motor homes to old, creaking models that had seen far better days. Our 1986 Toyota Escaper fell toward the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In an Instant:&#8221; From Affluence to Bankruptcy in Denver&#8217;s Housing Meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob and Callae didn&#8217;t know it, but in 2007 their family was on the precipice of a devastating slide from affluence to bankruptcy. They lived in an upscale Denver neighborhood, were members of a country club and employed a nanny for their two young boys. Bob&#8217;s small business and hard work made their comfortable lifestyle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Difficulties: Kansas farmers caught between good times and bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[soybeans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Daniels says there are few things he loves more than a challenge, and this year he&#8217;s getting just that. He stands to lose more than $100,000 on his farm near Topeka, Kansas. It&#8217;s a story that began a year ago, strangely, in one of the most profitable growing seasons farmers there had ever seen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Their Shoes</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/08/in-their-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Julie's Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Road: Our Personal Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We take our shoes off before entering the Escaper. Not while we go in and out during the day, but when we&#8217;re in for the night. It&#8217;s become a ritual: John stands in the doorway, scraping the heel of one foot with the toe of the other until his running shoes land outside. He pushes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;That Piece of Paper&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/08/that-piece-of-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adult education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diploma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new directions learning academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[topeka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one seems more surprised at what a single piece of paper can do for you than Cory Willingham. Had he known what life would be like, the constant struggle to find and keep a job that did not require a high school diploma, he might have done things differently. Twenty years ago, Cory dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maisie&#8217;s Pool</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/08/maisies-pool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Eskridge, Kansas on the Maisie DeVore Highway. It said so right on the big green road sign outside of town. We were on a tour of rural Kansas with friends from Topeka and were prepared to roll right through Eskridge without stopping. It wouldn&#8217;t have taken long; the town&#8217;s population is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s Popeye the Sailor Man</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/08/hes-popeye-the-sailor-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popeye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popeye the Sailor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Segar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehardestyear.com/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He got you to eat spinach before it was a &#8220;superfood&#8221; and if pressed, you&#8217;ll admit you said &#8220;I yam what I yam&#8221; at least once in your life. But if you have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about, then I suppose a visit to Chester, Illinois will be for a reason far different from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Animal&#8217;s Best Friend</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/07/an-animals-best-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://hardestyear.com/2009/07/an-animals-best-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tina bratcher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around Lexington, Missouri they call Tina Bratcher the &#8220;Cat Lady.&#8221; The name makes her laugh, but she comes by it honestly. As a child, Tina&#8217;s mother refused to let her keep any of the animals she brought home. It wasn&#8217;t until she was all grown up with a place of her own, that Tina decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Patchwork of Hope: Donna Sue Groves, the woman behind barn quilts, faces the challenge of her life</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/07/a-patchwork-of-hope-donna-sue-groves-the-woman-behind-barn-quilts-faces-the-challenge-of-her-life/</link>
		<comments>http://hardestyear.com/2009/07/a-patchwork-of-hope-donna-sue-groves-the-woman-behind-barn-quilts-faces-the-challenge-of-her-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing a job and learning you have cancer would devastate just about anybody &#8211; except for Donna Sue Groves. She is a survivor. What helps Donna Sue fight is the love and support of family and friends, and the community she has helped create through a simple idea of painting colorful quilt squares on barns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way It Is</title>
		<link>http://hardestyear.com/2009/07/the-way-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://hardestyear.com/2009/07/the-way-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Julie's Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Road: Our Personal Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up a television junkie (I&#8217;m talking broadcast, we didn&#8217;t get cable until I was in high school), I found that limited programming made for a greater shared experience by us, the viewing audience. There were only so many Saturday morning cartoons to goof about at the cafeteria table; there was only one Fonz. Even [...]]]></description>
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