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		<title>EMBRACE yourself. You are all you need to hold onto.</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/05/18/embrace-yourself-you-are-all-you-need-to-hold-onto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.L. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven steps to healing the lovesick heart. We’ve all had them. Those icky, sticky, yucky feelings of love gone wrong. The sense of loss. Of abandonment. Of feeling devalued and discarded. Of being ‘less than’ the light of love in our lover’s eyes. We’ve all had them and sometimes, those feelings linger for longer than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A story. My story. Dancing in the arms of love.</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/02/10/a-story-my-story-dancing-in-the-arms-of-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.L. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She waited. Patient. Patiently. I&#8217;ll wait for you forever, she told him. And so she waited. She waited and waited but still he never came. She called. Impatient. Impatiently. She called and she called and still he never answered. She searched. For him. For answers. For hope. And still her hands came up empty. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claiming Peace: After the sociopath is gone</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/01/27/claiming-peace-after-the-sociopath-is-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 9:12 am on May 21, 2003, the only peace I knew was the unsettling desire to die, the constant throbbing of the voice screaming at me to let go, give in, give up, give over my life to the darkness that consumed me. I wanted to end it all. To have the turmoil and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you Donna!</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/01/26/thank-you-donna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Donna for your support of The Dandelion Spirit &#8212; and of me and my journey and everyone else here who comes to find hope and encouragement and ends up finding themselves free of an abuser because of the light you cast upon the path leading them away from abuse. I am often surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the sociopath is gone:  From grief to falling in love.</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/12/03/after-the-sociopath-is-gone-from-grief-to-falling-in-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.L. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every other week I participate in a &#8216;one word&#8217; blog carnival. This week&#8217;s word was &#8216;grief&#8217;. Grief. A tiny word. Five letters. &#8216;i&#8217; before &#8216;e&#8217;. A story of precedence. What comes before grief? Love. Friendship. Familiarity. Hope. A belief in tomorrow. A belief in another day. A better day. A different time. A time for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the sociopath is gone: Your best life yet!</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/11/26/after-the-sociopath-is-gone-your-best-life-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.L. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when all I felt grateful for was the absence of his voice, for just an hour or two from the phone. There was a time when what I was most grateful for was knowing he was somewhere else, somewhere where I wasn&#8217;t. There was a time when I was grateful not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your voice. It counts.</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/11/17/your-voice-it-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.L. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was with the man whose lies no longer hurt me, I believed he held my freedom in his hands. I believed I could only be free with his love. With his words. His voice feeding me the lies I called the truth. The lies I believed were truth and was too afraid to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>He Will Call It Love. (May contain triggers.)</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/28/he-will-call-it-love-may-contain-triggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often asked how I managed to get out of that place of darkness to live with such light and joy in my heart today. The answer is fairly simple &#8212; I chose to. The reality is much more complex. The following piece describes where I got to in that journey. It is an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>423</slash:comments>
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		<title>After the sociopath is gone:  Good-bye lie. Welcome truth.</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/21/after-the-sociopath-is-gone-good-bye-lie-welcome-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/21/after-the-sociopath-is-gone-good-bye-lie-welcome-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following nine months after the p formerly in my life was arrested. I was asked on another thread, was there a moment you &#8216;knew&#8217;? Knew that you would be okay. Knew it was okay to let him go. Yes and no. In those first heady days of freedom, every moment was filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the sociopath is gone: Leap before you look.</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/14/after-the-sociopath-is-gone-leap-before-you-look/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/14/after-the-sociopath-is-gone-leap-before-you-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.L. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work in a homeless shelter. It is a place where people are worn down by their stories, day in, day out. They carry the load like a weight upon their shoulders, sitting at tables with hunched shoulders, rounded backs. They walk with shuffling footsteps, backs curled into their chests, their hopes gripped in hands [...]]]></description>
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