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		<title>Pretty Boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/pretty-boy.A friend of mine can&#8217;t stand Brad Pitt and thinks he&#8217;s a terrible actor, nothing more than a pretty boy. I disagree, and I&#8217;m always mindful of the films he&#8217;s in because he&#8217;s starred in three of my favorites: A River Runs Through It, Seven Years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role Model Roger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/role-model-roger.I&#8217;ve been a fan of film critic Roger Ebert since I first began reading his columns and watching his famous TV debates with Gene Siskel back in the early 80s. Early on I think I admired his caustic wit the most, but now I admire him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unflattering Imitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/unflattering-imitation.A friend of mine recently had an argument with his girlfriend, which ended with him saying, &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to be like that, I&#8217;m just going to leave!&#8221; To which she replied, &#8220;Go ahead and leave, you son of a bitch!&#8221; She&#8217;s an animal lover in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/cool-kids.Today was one of those inspiring days that come along now and then. I&#8217;m not a fan of the dreary and endless (despite what the calendar says) month of February, so perhaps such days are necessary this time of year. In any case, while standing at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/first-steps.My son Sean Michael is 15 months old today, and he apparently decided it&#8217;s time for him to start walking. He&#8217;s been furniture surfing for a while, and taken a couple of tentative steps now and then, but always dropped to the floor to crawl. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proud Uncle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/proud-uncle.My niece Meghan is a student at the University of Wisconsin. She’s a talented writer and recently co-authored an important opinion piece in the university’s paper. When she was in high school, Meghan wrote a parody of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye that I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Beauty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/american-beauty.When I first saw American Beauty, I thought it was a somewhat depressing tale of modern suburban life. I saw the film again recently, however, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Two scenes were especially compelling. One was Kevin Spacey&#8217;s voiceover after he&#8217;s been murdered. I generally don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/poetry.The following poem, by Sierra Lafever, was recently published in Teen Ink. Sierra is a student at the school where I work, and I certainly understand why her poem was published &#8212; it&#8217;s excellent. Always enjoyable to work with talented young people:
Age Six
The bones of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/imitation.My sister Mary took a nice photo of our nephew Colin recently. Colin is my sister Amy&#8217;s middle son &#8212; she has three boys, the &#8220;Irish Princes,&#8221; between ages 2 and 6. The image Mary captured shows Colin sitting on the toilet, holding a book and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/beards.There is something freeing about letting my facial hair grow like a field of wheat…Yes, the beard is back. I’ve decided I like the lower part of my face covered with fur; I always have, actually, and even in my clean shaven days I usually only [...]]]></description>
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