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		<title>A Lump of Coal in Your Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again. Oh yes, it is indeed the holiday season, and whether you call it Christmas, Yule, Saturnalia, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or Winter Solstice, chances are you clothe it in some kind of celebration. If you&#8217;re like most of us, you probably don&#8217;t even think about where your traditions come from, since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2389&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing out the boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I booked to do this blog, I was going to do a write up of the RNA Christmas party, but plenty of people have reported back on that so I decided to muse about a conversation I’d had just last weekend over lunch with two fellow authors. How can we expand our relatively small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2385&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E M Forster&#8217;s gay fiction didn&#8217;t end with Maurice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read all E M Forster’s novels, starting with Maurice and working my way through the rest in no particular order. I&#8217;ve even read the fragments of novels he left behind, unfinished. They were all intriguing, some &#8211; Maurice and A Passage to India &#8211; were stunning, and the experience left me wanting more. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2380&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balm to the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being that I&#8217;m a visual sort of person and being that I have the kind of imagination that makes connections between relatively-unconnected things, you can probably imagine the effect visual art has on me. I can&#8217;t paint or even draw a straight line without serious professional help, and the kick I get out of seeing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2355&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One wonders what Tsar Alexander had to say about it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[see more Historic LOL<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2351&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LOL Macaroni</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/lol-macaroni-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<title>LOL Macaroni</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<title>Linkotopia: the 1930s and 1940s</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/linkotopia-the-1930s-and-1940s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the course of my research for my current work-in-progress &#8211; set in the 1940s &#8211; I amassed a collection of research-related links that I thought I would share with you, mostly because they&#8217;re interesting, but also because each in its own way allows a peek into a bygone era, its social customs and mores [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2304&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tripped up by words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tripped up by words.  In my one Regency story I have a charcter talking about how hard the snow is falling; he calls it a blizzard. Nice, traditional English word, I thought. Imagine how cross I was to recently discover that not only is “blizzard” a late nineteenth century word as applied to weather, it’s American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2300&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Auditory Crumpet: the Joys of Old Time Radio</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/auditory-crumpet-the-joys-of-old-time-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you doubtless know, I&#8217;m an inveterate fan of old time radio shows &#8211; Rocky Jordan; Nightbeat; Boston Blackie; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; and my latest find, The Adventures of Frank Race. Now, I&#8217;m sure you think me old-fashioned and perhaps something of a Luddite to prefer radio programs over television and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2288&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing other people&#8217;s historical crumpet.</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/sharing-other-peoples-historical-crumpet/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/sharing-other-peoples-historical-crumpet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hugely indebted to Lee Benoit for mailing me with some pictures she noticed in an archive for the athletic departments at her old university. These lovely &#8211; and very modern looking lads &#8211; appear to be the 1870 baseball team. The guy sitting down, second from right, looks just like Steve Borthwick. And this lad from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2281&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More historical crumpet</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/more-historical-crumpet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the book British Greats at a charity stall; it&#8217;s a real gem. As I flicked through, I came across this picture &#8211; the bloke second from the left at the back really caught my eye. &#8220;That&#8217;s Mallory! I had no idea he was so striking!&#8221; The story of Mallory and Irvine&#8217;s bid to climb Everest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2273&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More historical pin-ups</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 10:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time over the last few years reading books and poetry by and about the WWI poets. I&#8217;ll start by saying that I&#8217;m not going to be extolling either the beauty or the virtue or Rupert Brooke or Siegfried Sassoon. Despite the way that women raved about their looks, I find neither particularly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2263&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Lust For Books&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 15:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me personally know that in my Real Life &#8482; I work in a library. I am, in fact, responsible for maintaining the audiobooks and music part of our collection, which means I get to shelve a lot of music CDs with titles like BARKING IN MY PANTS, THE ELVEN SHUST, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2259&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical crumpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 08:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Macaronis authors&#8217; group we were discussing handsome men (par for the course) and got onto hotties from days gone by. Some of us will be sharing our favourite historical hotties over the weeks ahead. I&#8217;m starting with some sporting heroes (well, there&#8217;s a surprise!) I like men&#8217;s tennis, so I was astonished to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2252&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LOL Macaroni</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/lol-macaroni-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Pause That Refreshes</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/the-pause-that-refreshes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It could be argued that &#8216;the pause that refreshes&#8217; belongs most notably to Coca-Cola &#8211; that very representative American beverage &#8211; but for me, the only pause that truly refreshes is the tea break. The island where I grew up used to be a British colony (the oldest of the British colonies, in fact) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2229&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mere Morals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No &#8211; the title isn&#8217;t misspelled. (However &#8211; warnings for plot spoilers of Mere Mortals) One of the things I wanted to explore in Mere Mortals was the sheer disposability of human life. I remember that Dickens&#8217; expose of the terrible treatment of orphans in Oliver Twist helped to start the authorities to look at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2220&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Links Post</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/friday-links-post-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short one this week.  Many thanks to Lee Benoit for sending in a link to this possibly the first ever onscreen m/m kiss. And to Syd McGinley for this link to a blog featuring some historical hunks: Bangable Dudes in History<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2216&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing breeches rippers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/writing-breeches-rippers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted here on many occasions about how wonderful the Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association  is. They have a members&#8217; magazine called Romance Matters, so Alex beecroft and I gathered up our courage and submitted an article about writing gay historical romance. It appeared in yesterday&#8217;s issue! This is the original, uncut text, which we clipped to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2212&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A single moment that stays with you forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever come around a corner and seen a vista so perfect it literally took your breath away? Ever been in a place with such a perfect combination of setting, weather and atmosphere that you almost cry for the sheer perfection of it and the feeling that you’ll never get that moment back again? I’m sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2203&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Links Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short but fun one today: Passed along by Syd McGinley, this interactive Victorian role playing game will allow you to see if your character would have been welcomed at the Gentleman&#8217;s Club or cruelly cut at the Ballroom. http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0/ &#160; Recommended by Erastes, a very nice vintage book blog Bali Hai&#8217;s Blog and two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2201&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report from our RNA lunch &#8211; the importance of a story&#8217;s opening paragraphs</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/report-from-our-rna-lunch-the-importance-of-a-storys-opening-paragraphs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Monday just gone saw the first local Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association lunch of 2011. Good food, good company, always something to learn and always a great chinwag. This time we didn&#8217;t have a speaker. Instead we all read the first 250 words from one of our works (finished or yet to be) and discussed them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2193&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday links post</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/friday-links-post-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Syd McGinley http://www.etymonline.com/index.php This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they&#8217;re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2195&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see I forgot to do a Friday post last week.  My apologies!  However, that does mean that I&#8217;ve got an especially good selection of links this week.  So, without further ado: Ever had your historical character sigh and stare at the wall, only to wonder exactly what he was seeing?  Have a look at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2187&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Life Love Letter. Marbod of Rennes to a Young Lover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marbodus (ca. 1035 – 11 September 1123) was archdeacon and schoolmaster at Angers, France, then Bishop of Rennes in Brittany. He was a respected poet, hagiographer, and hymnologist. I have to smile wryly at the last instruction in the last two lines. But then if the young lover had kept these to himself, we&#8217;d never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2185&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A WAR TO DIVIDE US</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stevie Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Pieter in the North to Sebastian in the South (from Cane and Conflict) 14 February 1861 I’m lying here in bed, not ‘my’ bed because that is wherever you are and we are many hundreds of miles apart. I know it was my choice to leave as I can’t fight for the South if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2181&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stevie Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard to Julian (from Smoke Screen) 14th February 1802 You were restless last evening and you got up and went to the balcony. You thought I was asleep but I missed your warmth almost immediately. I lay there and watched you, entranced as the moon slipped from behind a cloud and bathed you in its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2177&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bai Juyi &#8211; Separation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Seeing Poems Written by Yuan at the Blue Bridge Inn On your return last spring you stayed in the Blue Bridge Inn; wen the wind sweeps down from the Qinling Mountains, I head the other way; each time I come to an inn I dismount first eagerly looing on the walls to see If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2171&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell My Heart I&#8217;m On the Next Train</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maarif, Morocco 1941 My dear Jake: To say that this place is horrible without you is a gross understatement, but needs must when the Devil drives and the Devil, I fear, intends to drive this train all the way to Perdition&#8217;s very gates. At last report Herr General was advancing towards Cairo but there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3113611&amp;post=2155&amp;subd=historicromance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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