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	<description>Official Website of Author Devin Hansen</description>
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		<title>Encapsulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my way to Chicago last weekend, we stopped to get some gas in Dixon, IL. The childhood home of Ronald Reagan. I pulled into the Wal-Mart parking lot to snap this photo, thinking that it summed up our American war efforts perfectly. Defending the &#8220;American way.&#8221;
As I took the picture, one of the soldiers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/encapsulation/</link>
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		<title>Human Acid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its the perfect days that are most painful. Those days I get up and make breakfast for the girls&#8230;bacon and eggs and waffles sweetened wiith strawberries from the garden. The days at the park, teaching them tennis or letting them pelt me with water balloons. A small lunch as I listen to their impromptu songs, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/human-acid/</link>
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		<title>Chiropractic Bacha Bazi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I serviced over one hundred strangers in a matter of two days. Half-naked in that windowless room, cut off from family and friends, trapped and alone. Unable to leave or even piss when I wanted. It was the closest thing I&#8217;d experienced to prison. And when it was all over, I sped home, drank a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/essays/chiropractic-bacha-bazi/</link>
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		<title>Kill Your Cell Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I snapped my flip-phone in half and tossed it into the Mississippi. It was one of the most liberating decisions I&#8217;d made, and felt so much more focused and content afterwards.  Once my wife got pregnant though, I found myself with another cellular shackle.
&#8220;What if something happens?&#8221; was the main argument.
Years later I&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/kill-your-cell-phone/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Kiss Dead Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As usual, I was in the backyard watching the girls play on the swingset, practice on the circus barrels and climb the apple tree.  I went inside for a glass of tea, and when I came back, Chelsea was sitting on the slide hugging something small and furry.
I went over.
What do you have honey?
Its my friend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/dont-kiss-dead-fish/</link>
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		<title>Green and Pink Toe Nails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The girls painted my toenails one night. Anna on the right foot with a vial of pink polish, and Chelsea on the left with neon green. It was a stinking mess that made us light-headed. But the little girls were happy. And I could always wear socks.
The next day I decorated my left arm at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/green-and-pink-toe-nails/</link>
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		<title>Simple Hardships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my daughters had chicken-pox last year, I spent two sleepless nights dolloping them with calamine lotion and rubbing their backs.
It was a hard few days, but of course we all survived. And damn if we didn&#8217;t appreciate the first full night of sleep.
Looking back, it makes me think about how comfortable we have it.
Chicken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/simple-hardships/</link>
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		<title>Reality Sideshow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reality television has always been dubbed a &#8220;sideshow&#8221;, but not until recently has it become a description to be taken quite literally.
I&#8217;m not talking the blatantly exploitative programs like Jerry Springer. There are now several reality shows that feature little-people living, working and experiencing life in modern America. The problem is that none of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/reality-sideshow/</link>
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		<title>Tune In, Turn On, Sign Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s  nothing like reuniting with a cherished friend. You rehash old stories and share new ones. Laugh, hug and feel a sort of relief to be together again.
Last spring one of my best friends from St. Louis came to visit me. We gave each other a handshake, exchanged pleasantries, and then sat on my patio to chat and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.inhumanimal.com/slush/tune-in-turn-on-sign-ou/</link>
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		<title>Made in China, er Minnesota</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its common knowledge that most products in a store are Made in China.
I understand the arguments for globalization, but I still want to consume goods made in the USA or Europe, where labor standards are considerably better.
Today I got a large check for some ghost writing, and decided to splurge on a few kitchen supplies at a [...]]]></description>
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