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		<title>Deep Cuts Part Three: Father Facade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Deep Cuts Part Two: Preteen Wasteland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 14:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grandma Gabrielle In my last Deep Cuts blog, I wrote about the part of my childhood where I felt small and weak and helpless.  It was not a very large part of my life, but it was important, because I learned to hide behind a reputation for brutality and instability during that period.  I learned [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonjwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14561809&#038;post=324&#038;subd=leonjwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Cuts Part One: Sympathy for the Backstory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve figured out why everything I write on this blog makes me seem like an asshole.  I think it&#8217;s because the story of my life, as told in 2000-word installments, has no plot and no character arc.  I never really change.  In order to rectify that, I&#8217;m going to do a couple blogs on my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonjwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14561809&#038;post=254&#038;subd=leonjwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Broke Into the Wrong House, Buddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this is a link to a newspaper article written before I was born, about a guy breaking into The Dojo.  The Dojo is the place where I lived when I was very little, and the place I went back to live as a teenager.  Pretty funny little article, however. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&#38;dat=19710902&#38;id=4WwlAAAAIBAJ&#38;sjid=_7IFAAAAIBAJ&#38;pg=3510,587449<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonjwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14561809&#038;post=246&#038;subd=leonjwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sounds Like the Trains are Making Baby Trains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put a new page on my website, and this is why: I always seem to end up living next to trains. When I was in my twenties I used to hop on the slow moving trains and ride through downtown Sparks, Nevada to reduce the length of my walk to work every morning.  I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonjwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14561809&#038;post=205&#038;subd=leonjwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grandpa’s Ashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leonjwest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drive down out of the mountains, through Susanville and south across the pine dotted scrub desert around  Highway 395.  I’m going back to Nevada for the first time in years, to spread my dead grandfather’s ashes and get my son, Gatlyn, who’s been living with his increasingly unstable mother.  The sage smell coming in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonjwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14561809&#038;post=93&#038;subd=leonjwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rude Dog Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Rudy when I was fourteen, either right before I moved to my father’s house in Oregon, or shortly after I moved back.  I can’t remember when exactly, but I do remember how. I was in Jeff’s yard, with a bunch of the neighborhood kids, and we were all boxing with a single pair [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonjwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14561809&#038;post=90&#038;subd=leonjwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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