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        <title><![CDATA[Stories by Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻 on Medium]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thoughts On Listening To Leonard Cohen’s Final Work]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:02:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[They Call It Jazz]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:08:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Small Vices]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:04:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Happy Misanthrope]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/the-happy-misanthrope-2ba1a0acfd12?source=rss-ada544b5b753------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/1*sRixjzhZTAAkMF1dj2b4ug.jpeg" width="2732"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">a fable, as song lyric&#x200A;&#x2014;&#x200A;with audio (words and music, reunited)</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/the-happy-misanthrope-2ba1a0acfd12?source=rss-ada544b5b753------2">Continue reading on The Partnered Pen »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:52:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unmasked]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:25:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Weight]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Our Last (Hollow) Laugh]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Somewhat Safer]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fiddling, While The Country Burns]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zarina Dara ]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2019 20:24:20 GMT</pubDate>
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