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		<description><![CDATA[Dad, I always struggled with your birthday&#8212;so close to Father&#8217;s Day&#8212;and trying to find you, the man who had everything, a gift. What on earth could I possibly give you? What would go with that smile, could go with that look on your face&#8212;the one where you throw your head back in a fit of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rachelswan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5906770&amp;post=1521&amp;subd=rachelswan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six years ago a man was hunting&#8212;not for fish or flying creatures&#8212;but for a rare but beautiful type of fungus&#8212;the elusive morel mushroom. Six years ago down on his hands and knees, pushing back and across a thousand Freddies, that man would bump into something indeed rare and beautiful, but IT would be a SHE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rachelswan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5906770&amp;post=1505&amp;subd=rachelswan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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