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      <title>Illustration: Children, Blame</title>
      <description>Children can be adept thinkers, often when such analytical skills can weary a parent.</description>
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      <title>Illustration: Compliments, Timing</title>
      <description>Perhaps something was lost in translation...</description>
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      <title>Illustration: Questions, Fathers and Sons</title>
      <description>Learning in the oral tradition is a good reason for parents to spend time with their children.</description>
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      <description>Learning in the oral tradition is a good reason for parents to spend time with their children.</description>
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      <title>Illustration: Tithing, Money</title>
      <description>Where your heart is, there your treasure is also. It's impossible to out-give God.</description>
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      <title>Illustration: MLK Day</title>
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      <title>Illustration: Southern Christmas</title>
      <description>Something about the natvity was lost in translation...</description>
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      <description>Something about the natvity was lost in translation...</description>
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      <title>Illustration: Christmas—Gift of Eternity</title>
      <description>Receive eternity this Christmas.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Receive eternity this Christmas.</description>
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      <title>Illustration: Communication, Understanding</title>
      <description>Something was lost in translation...</description>
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      <description>Something was lost in translation...</description>
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      <title>Illustration: Gifts</title>
      <description>The gift of time spent with them is the best thing we can give our children.</description>
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