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            <title><![CDATA[Do You Also Picture a Home Inside a Cave, or Are You Normal?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:41:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Read an Apocalyptic Novel in an Empty Beach Resort in Indonesia]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:13:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Not Your Average Cherry Blossom Story]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:23:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Millennial Women Were Raised on a Lie]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/bitchy/millennial-women-were-raised-on-a-lie-fd7fa8ac1362?source=rss-873887cbbcd0------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1280/1*lLSAVXq22nFGYIWJhxxUtQ.jpeg" width="1280"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Watching The Dropout made me question the Girlboss dream we were taught to chase</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/bitchy/millennial-women-were-raised-on-a-lie-fd7fa8ac1362?source=rss-873887cbbcd0------2">Continue reading on Bitchy »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Went to Photograph Flowers in Singapore and Got a Lesson in Geopolitics]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:20:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Day I Stopped Saying I Don’t Know Plants]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:12:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Remains of Humanity at the End of the World?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the Light Falls on My Commute]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:52:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Peace of Empty Roads]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:41:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Nile in Real Life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:47:43 GMT</pubDate>
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