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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An homage to Nashville, my home for the past couple of days. This Cootchie Classic had my mother telling me EXACTLY where I was conceived, right there in the comments on the original post. I&#8217;m going to spare your tender imagination, Dear Reader. Just reading that title makes me want to hurl. But, my parents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5728&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Go Honkey-Tonkin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You hafta go to the bathroom in this place. Not a standard greeting from an aged Southern gentleman, or any man desiring the chivalric title for that matter. He was slight. Abundant white hair, still arrayed in a flattened pompadour. Feisty. A force. He forced me to go to the bathroom. My job gives me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5722&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, MTM and I were treated to a one-of-a-kind dinner at Lana Restaurant. Our Place, moved across town. John Ondo, the chef and our friend, put together a surprise meal that bowed to Mardi Gras, with oysters in every course, spinning the food with his talented flare. Thank you, John, for making such a plate-licking, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5709&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Big Mardi Gras Reveal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late. My shoes clacked on the blue stone sidewalk as I ran. Perspiration broke out like a teenage rash on my upper lip. February in Charleston: does one call in sick to work to goof off at the beach, or choose to be semi-responsible with a meandering route to a rendezvous lunch of multiple courses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5696&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spousal Chainsaw Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cootchie Classic, because I need to laugh. And, nothing spells laughter like the image of me trying to buy power tools for MTM. From two holidays ago, I&#8217;m Dreaming of a Chainsaw Christmas (!) from infobarrel.com (does MTM need the gun part, too?) Lest anyone think that gifts are all about me, I spent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5689&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Do I Really Need?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to stop crying over things I cannot change. People I cannot alter. Situations I cannot stand. My head knows what my heart needs. Hearts, though. They direct the core for a reason. Hearts should be protected by their dense surroundings, shielded as they are by bone and tissue and more bone. They exist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5682&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the days I don&#8217;t think I can. These are the days I must.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5678&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound fluttered its way to me again. Aching. Alone. A haunting chorus of another day done, minutes that are permanently etched into the story of my life, unalterable. When the wind breathes across the landscape from the northwest, I always know the precise stroke of eleven o&#8217;clock. The trumpeted strains of Taps clutch me through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5673&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Waiting For a Train</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andra Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is a random, mixed-up affair. It makes sense. It befuddles. Uplifting. Browbeating. Whatever it serves, life is coordinated chance. Take trains. Subway cars. Claustrophobic metal tubes shuttling under big cities. A pixied redhead preceeded me onto a car yesterday, both of us grinning and apologizing as we negotiated the entrance together. She took her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrawatkins.com&amp;blog=11806222&amp;post=5665&amp;subd=icilantrocilantro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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