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        <title><![CDATA[Stories by Audra Spangler on Medium]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Best Friend and How I Betrayed Him]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 16:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I am Financially Hindered, and I Bought a Sailboat]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 16:17:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I Lost Motivation to Write on Medium]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:46:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Disabled Dreams]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:58:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Went Sailing for the First Time in Almost 3 Decades]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:56:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ocean World — A Call for Editors]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:20:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Made My First YouTube VLOG]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet My Muse]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:25:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[That's My Trash Can]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:50:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Cats and I]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:40:40 GMT</pubDate>
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