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		<title>A Letter to the Living: How I Survived the Death of My Soul Mate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Memoir by Jake Sutter Introduction We fall in love. We marry. We become one. We expect to grow old together. It&#8217;s unimaginable, the idea that we might suffer the death of the one person we love more than any other, at a young age, tragically and horrifically, and find ourselves abandoned, with decades left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=11&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1: A Letter to the Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friend, I know your pain. It used to be my pain. It overwhelmed me in waves, agony so intense a stranger could have fileted me with a shard from a broken bottle, and I’d have scarcely noticed. From inside my blurry bubble, the outside world seemed distant, irrelevant, incapable of touching the sorrow. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=65&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 2: New Year&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.01.09 Thursday Lance L. Mitchell: August 15, 1969 &#8211; January 1, 2009. I can never repay him. More when I&#8217;m able. I posted that New Year’s Day entry to my personal blog just hours after he died. I didn’t know what else to say. Later that long day, much later, after the condolences began pouring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=1&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 3: One Phone Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lance&#039;s Advice for Excellent Living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance hated cheese. He wasn’t lactose intolerant. He simply hated it. He was a traitor to his Scandinavian heritage, and he was the fussiest eater I ever met. When friends planned parties, and asked what he didn’t like, I told them it would be easier to list what he did like: meat and potatoes, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=49&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4: Should</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[5.25.08 Saturday Please forgive us if you&#8217;re reading this and haven&#8217;t heard from us via phone. We haven&#8217;t been able to reach some of you yet due to the time change and due to other problems. Plus, we are fortunate to have so many people in our lives who love us—too many to contact personally. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=68&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4: Should (continued)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we could have found a deck of playing cards emblazoned with the different varieties of cancer, Lance had drawn no less than the ace of spades. Metastatic stage IV melanoma is a death sentence. He was going to die. And yet he showed no symptoms. It was beyond belief. In retrospect I can say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=71&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4: Should (continued)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j4kesutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By this time, they already knew he might have cancer. But they didn’t know what I knew: that advanced melanoma is almost always fatal, and that if he contracted it, his life would end. So far as everyone else was concerned, we had suffered nothing more than an ugly scare four months earlier. Thankfully, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=75&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5: Authenticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j4kesutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[11.24.08 Monday Dear Lance, I have struggled over the past few months trying to decide if I should phone you or write. I have called a couple of times—once leaving a message, but I finally decided to just write. I hope I haven’t waited too long. Perhaps Jake knows or doesn’t know that he has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=95&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5: Authenticity (continued)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12.03.08 Wednesday It&#8217;s time to call a halt to the pleas for conversion to Christianity. STOP. This weekend Lance received yet another letter, this one from a treasured friend, one of my favorite people, and though it was well-written and bathed in the most genuine of good intentions, and though it represented an act of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alettertotheliving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11083378&amp;post=103&amp;subd=alettertotheliving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t find later chapters?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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