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		<title>A night in the life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insomnia sneaks into my bed
As turbulent thoughts dance round my head
My troubled past fills me with sorrow
I cry impassioned, for my uncertain tomorrow
I yearn to settle my restless soul
I dream of feeling fulfilled and whole
I desperately struggle to quench my fears
Feverishly I try to stop the tears
But they roll and roll down my tired face
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/a-night-in-the-life/</link>
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		<title>Grim Reality, meet Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scene is quite grim- the country is in the midst of a recession; over one million homes are in foreclosure; rental prices have sky-rocketed; banks are not handing out loans like they used to; gas is making giant leaps toward the five dollar per gallon mark; car and truck manufacturers are closing down plants; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=145&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/grim-reality-meet-hope/</link>
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		<title>Pools of sorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ice-cold hush fell over the crowd as the bride was asked, for a third time, if she would take this man as her lawful husband. The priest stared at her, helpless, silently mouthing the words&#8220;I do&#8221;  to her, as if the reason she hadn&#8217;t answered his question was simply because she had forgotten what the correct answer was. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=141&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/pools-of-sorrow/</link>
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		<title>Paradise for the holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to paradise for three weeks with my love&#8230;. I&#8217;m such a lucky chick.
Happy Holidays!
I hope 2008 is a rockin&#8217; year for all of you.
;o)
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/paradise-for-the-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Travel highs become woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can anyone relate to the following?
You go away, spend an amazing few days with the person you love, you&#8217;re on a great natural high, feeling loved, full of life, hopeful, relaxed, enjoying the &#8216;now&#8217;, positive about the future, all in all- your little holiday has gone wonderfully, every step of the way.
UNTIL YOU REACH THE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=138&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/travel-highs-become-woes/</link>
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		<title>Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my birthday on Friday, and as usual, the anniversary of my birth has stirred up some thought-provoking inner monologues&#8230;.
One of which is a list of things accomplished since my last birthday:
(This is the abridged version, of course.)
1. I&#8217;m still in love and we&#8217;re actually going really strong! (More than one year together!!!! And they said it wouldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=136&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/birthday/</link>
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		<title>broken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where is your love when I need it the most?
Where are your promises when all trust is lost?
Where are you tonight
When nothing seems right
and I don&#8217;t know how to go on&#8230;

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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/broken/</link>
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		<title>If I could escape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I could escape
I&#8217;d run to you until my legs gave in
and together we&#8217;d commit every single carnal sin.
After that,
I would turn myself in,
Only to escape again&#8230;
to you.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/if-i-could-escape/</link>
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		<title>Memoirs of Melancholy (an excerpt)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I have chosen to put my story in writing for my own benefit, not yours. (You’ll quickly learn I’m quite selfish.) You see, I’ve begun to forget. Moments here, days there, have covertly begun to escape my memory without a trace… as if those particular moments in my life never existed.  I’m afraid one day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=134&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/memoirs-of-melancholy-an-excerpt/</link>
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		<title>Unique moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can be better than going to bed every night by his side?
Perhaps, waking up next to him every morning&#8230;
And now life has given me the opportunity to experience both.
We&#8217;ve had some rough moments. We&#8217;ve had some tough times. But I see blue skies up ahead.  Beautiful,clear, blue skies.
I believe in us.
I believe in our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=133&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/unique-moment/</link>
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		<title>Wonderful Realization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, during the most mundane of moments- as he&#8217;s washing the dishes or putting on clothes- I&#8217;ll look over at him&#8230;and as I stare for a few furtive moments, making sure not to get caught, I can&#8217;t help but smile at the wonderful realization that he&#8217;s mine.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/wonderful-realization/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not easy to be me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I&#8217;ve positioned myself in my world, and in the world of those around me, as some sort of super hero. I&#8217;ve done this since I was a young girl. I help solve other people&#8217;s problems. I am everyone&#8217;s shoulder to cry on. I love unconditionally. I give unconditionally. I care. I&#8217;m always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=131&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/its-not-easy-to-be-me/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m mad as hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m mad as hell that some post-adolescent psychopath named Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people. I wish the police would have shot him, so he could have bled slowly to death, like the animal that he was. But, in the end, like most psychotic monsters, he was a coward and  took his own life. Imagine what his parents are feeling? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=130&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/im-mad-as-hell/</link>
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		<title>Lunch-time Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sat and ate my solitary lunch, I couldn’t help but notice the couple sitting at the table next to me- He was overweight, balding and in his late fifties, she was overweight, graying and probably a few years younger.  From the moment they sat down they hadn’t exchanged a single word. He looked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=129&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/lunch-time-musings/</link>
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		<title>Just the way I am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am who I am.
I aspire to be neither more nor less.
I don’t wish to be the most beautiful girl on Earth, nor the skinniest, nor the blondest, nor the most brunette. I don’t want to have the biggest breasts, the smallest behind, the longest legs. I don&#8217;t wish I looked like a swimsuit model. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=124&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/just-the-way-i-am/</link>
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		<title>The Cardinal Sin of Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Xx, 
I would be lying if I told you I hadn&#8217;t thought about you. I remember those enormous sunglasses you were wearing the first time I saw you; you thought you looked so sophisticated and I couldn&#8217;t help but fall in love with you and your naivety. And I fell instantly. I was enthralled by your goodness. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=122&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/the-cardinal-sin-of-relationships/</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t want to be them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw my father kiss another woman when I was six years old. An inappropriate, passionate kiss. He knew my younger sister and I were only a few feet away and still he decided to risk destroying his family, his image in our eyes and traumatizing his little girls, for a sloppy kiss on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=121&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/i-dont-want-to-be-them/</link>
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		<title>Re:solutions&#8230;A cynic&#8217;s guide to New Year&#8217;s resolutions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we can not find solutions to our problems, we resolve to make resolutions. Promises made on a drunk December eve that barely make it through the first month of the year. (If even the first week.)
The most popular?
To lose weight.
To quit smoking.
To be a better person.
To spend more time with family.
To get out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=119&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/resolutionsa-satiric-guide-to-new-years-resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Dawning of a brand new day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new year dawned on me a top the crater of a 10,000 foot volcano in paradise. The bitter cold and harsh wind only added to the epic experience of being completely surrounded, as far as the eye could see,  by altostratus clouds. Before the spherical sun danced on to the stage of a new year, it made its presence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=117&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/dawning-of-a-brand-new-day/</link>
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		<title>The colors of my world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel gray&#8230;a complete lack of feeling.
Sometimes I feel blue&#8230;a need to start healing.
Sometimes I feel red&#8230;passionate and alive.
Sometimes I feel yellow&#8230;full of energy and drive.
Sometimes I feel white&#8230;like I&#8217;ve found my way home.
Sometimes I feel black&#8230;empty and alone.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/the-colors-of-my-world/</link>
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		<title>Lack of Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had writer&#8217;s block, but all of a sudden I&#8217;m suffering from a complete and total lack of inspiration. I can&#8217;t seem to stream two words together. It&#8217;s quite frustrating.
I also haven&#8217;t taken any photos in almost three weeks.  My eyes see nothing worth photographing.
I&#8217;m artistically blocked.
It&#8217;s quite sad.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/lack-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;No-Spin Zone&#8221; is actually SPIN CITY.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill O&#8217;Reilly epitomizes what is wrong with the United States: he&#8217;s narcissitic, opinionated, a &#8220;closet&#8221; Republican with extreme far right views, he lies, manipulates the truth, omits facts, invents statistics, is a racist, a loud mouth, and rides his high moral horse with his holier than thou attitude. (Hey Bill, we all heard of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=114&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/the-no-spin-zone-is-actually-spin-city/</link>
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		<title>simple lust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Looking at her over my whisky I thought how odd it was that I felt no desire for her at all. It was as if quite suddenly, after all the promiscuous years, I had grown up. My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust for ever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=113&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/simple-lust/</link>
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		<title>Loneliness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He came home that night to his dull, middle class apartment; located in his dull bourgeois neighborhood; with a very dull brunette he had met at a rather dull party. 
He felt so little importance toward the situation, that he was not embarrassed in the slightest that his apartment was messy, that his kitchen was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=111&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/loneliness/</link>
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		<title>A Life Less Ordinary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder why the world is like it is. Why we harbor so much evil, why we live among such hate, why we use our free will to cage our souls&#8230; It&#8217;s easy to see why so many have lost hope, why so many have stopped fighting, why it seems so much easier to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=110&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/carpe-diem-lads-seize-the-day/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I felt the sweet taste of desire tickle my tongue and invade my mouth.
It&#8217;s been a while since one look, one momentary glance, could stop my heart for a moment, only to make it start pounding with fury an instant later.
It&#8217;s been a while since a smile could melt every icey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=109&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/09/07/its-been-a-while/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;And</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And I muster up my strength, so I can talk to you as I know best, without holding back, with my heart in my hand.
&#8230;And I&#8217;ve decided to do everything I&#8217;ve never done before, to open all doors, to have no regrets.
&#8230;And I hope you&#8217;ve started hearing that quiet voice that screams at you, in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=106&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/and/</link>
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		<title>Slaughter House 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is astonishing how disgusting some people can be. I can not yet understand how a person, conceived in an act of love, can grow up to be a hate-filled, evil demon. I do not believe in hell, yet sometimes I wish there was a hell, so that these terrorist pigs could pay for what they do. (And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=105&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/08/11/slaughter-house-5/</link>
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		<title>Cynicism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cynical:  1. Skeptical of the motives of others.
               2. Negative or pessimistic
               3. Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity.
Cynic:     (Modern definition) A person who belives all people are motivated by selfishness.
In ancient Greek times, a Cynic was a member of a sect of Philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=104&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/cynicism/</link>
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		<title>Heart of Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve been dancing in my mind
     As if you&#8217;re trying to find
          A way to invade every part of me,
               Every single space that is still free,
                    Every centimeter of my skin
                        Who I am and where I&#8217;ve been.
Can you find your way in the dark?
     Can you possibly erase the mark
          left by those who came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=102&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/heart-of-darkness/</link>
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		<title>Today I am brave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am, after all, only human.
If you cut me, I bleed. If you hit me, I bruise. If you hurt me, I cry.
And I have bled. And I have bruised. And I have cried a river over you.
But today I start a new life.
Healed.
Finally ready to believe in magic once more.
Finally ready to let myself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=103&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/today-i-am-brave/</link>
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		<title>Rendez-vous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was on a gray, rainy day like this that I had seen him last. It was the end of December and the beginning of winter and I finally had the courage to leave.  And now, in the middle of summer, on another gray, rainy day I found myself accepting his invitation to dinner. We hadn&#8217;t seen each other since that sad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=90&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/rendez-vous/</link>
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		<title>Zizou, What did you do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m at a loss for words. I find it impossible to comprehend that Zidane would take such an unnecessary risk during the last match of his career (at the WORLD CUP final!) He must know that every single camera is on him, that all eyes are on him, that he&#8217;s a marked man&#8230; There were only ten minutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=92&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/zizou-what-did-you-do/</link>
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		<title>You Invade Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I should distance myself from you.  I use the word &#8216;think&#8217; and not &#8216;feel&#8217;. For I don&#8217;t feel I should. I feel I should love you forever, surrender to you&#8230;but sometimes I think I should stop. I should separate. I should dettach&#8230; from you, oh intoxicating you, running through my veins, making your presence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=88&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/you-invade-me/</link>
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		<title>Zizou Bienvenue!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zizou, you&#8217;re back!!! Did you read my words? Were you upset that I reproached your poor play? Monsieur Zinedine Zidane you were without a doubt the MVP of the game today against Brazil and you showed us why you are the king. You were unstoppable (and quite irresistable) mon cher.
(PS. Loved to see Brazil lose with grace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=86&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/07/01/zizou-bienvenue/</link>
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		<title>Guests of the Ayatollah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamic students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, their original plan was to hold a three day protest of the American decision to allow exiled Iranian leader Shah Mohammed Reza to enter the U.S. to seek medical treatment. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=85&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/guests-of-the-ayatollah/</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t love you, and yet I do&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a marvelous present. A present filled with meaning and depth and beauty.
It&#8217;s a silver bracelet with the words of one of my favorite Pablo Neruda poems inscribed onto it&#8230; Fantastic fantastic present&#8230;  Nothing can turn a girl&#8217;s day around as quickly as a Neruda sonnet engraved on a silver bracelet.
On the bracelet, the poem is in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=84&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/i-dont-love-you-and-yet-i-do/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Ronaldo (A Semi-Apology)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Ronaldo,
First off, I am a huge fan. Second, I&#39;m sorry I mentioned you were fat in my previous entry.
Thanks for the two goals yesterday, now you don&#39;t have to feel bad about your Real Madrid salary or your astronomic endorsement deals. Yesterday we saw&#160;why you are who you are and&#160;I&#39;m assuming after you read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=83&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/06/23/open-letter-to-ronaldo-a-semi-apology/</link>
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		<title>World Cup (Zinedine Zi-DONE)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much is marketing worth in 2006?
It&#39;s enough to let the Brazilians keep a less than spectacular Ronaldo in a match&#160;when he is not at his best; and it is enough to let the French keep&#160;an old, tired (and&#160;irritable) Zidane in a match when he was not only playing poorly, but making mistakes.
In a sport [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=82&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/world-cup-zinedine-zine-done/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Confessing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He awoke that morning, like every other morning, to the annoying Beep-Beep of his alarm clock. The instant he regained consciousness, after his brief 4 hour sleep, he remembered she was gone. After this realization, he delayed opening his eyes, in an effort to avoid looking at the empty space next to him on his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=81&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/im-confessing-confessionloveegopridehopetraveltripamor/</link>
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		<title>Reverberations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an exquisite pleasure that reverberates through my spine when I put pen to paper and manage to string along&#160;a few words that please me. I write for myself, to fill a void, to express the stormy ocean of feelings that dwell inside my often melancholic soul. It is a catharsis like no other. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=80&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/reverberations/</link>
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		<title>Mendacity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[men·dac·i·ty   

The tendency to be untruthful
A lie; a falsehood
Deception; misleading
Hypocrisy; insincerity
The practice of lying

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)

BIG DADDY: What&#8217;s that smell in this room? Didn&#8217;t you notice it Brick? Didn&#8217;t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?&#8230;There ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; more powerful than the odor of mendacity&#8230;You can smell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=79&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/27/mendacity/</link>
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		<title>The Lovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In your eyes I see the sins I long to commit (with you).
In your touch I feel the life I never knew I had and never dreamed I could.
In your lips I find the answer to all my questions.
And that answer is &#39;you&#39;&#8230;
-Lali
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/loverslovekisslifesinsyoudreamlips/</link>
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		<title>Cash is KING (Not Cassius Clay)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I interviewed the president of the Cuban-American National Council, Mr. Guarione Diaz, for an Immigration Issues magazine. The article was a big hit and meeting Mr. Diaz, and now being able to count him as a friend, has been a big treat. I know the situation in Cuba semi-first hand because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=76&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/20/76/</link>
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		<title>I am like you.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel, like you, AFRAID.
I have, like you, SUFFERED.
I am, like you, LOST.
I fear, like you, FAILURE.
I want, like you, PASSION.
I need, like you, LOVE.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/i-am-like-you/</link>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Believe ANYTHING Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After&#160;a shadow&#160;of doubt has been cast,&#160;there is no certainty.
There is no trust.
Everything is tainted.
Nothing is clear.
The shadow has been cast&#8230;
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/11/i-dont-believe-anything-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Mamma Mia Figaro, Magnifico o o o</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve realized that I have not written anything about my mamita in a very long time and I actually recieved an e-mail inquiring about her health. (Which was very sweet, as VERY FEW people take the time to inquire about her.) Oh, this complex wonderful mother of mine is doing MUCH BETTER! I am ecstatic to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=71&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/06/mamma-mia-figaro-magnifico-o-o-o/</link>
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		<title>What if&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched an air plane circulate Houston airport today burning off all its fuel in the attempt to make a safe emergency landing. Upon take-off, it&#39;s two left tires exploded and the chaos ensued. The run-way was filled with members of the fire department, the police and emergency services. At first I was somewhat oblivious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=70&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/05/03/what-if/</link>
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		<title>DESIRE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes desire grow?
Is it having who we desire near us, yet not being able to actually HAVE him/her?
OR
Is it having who we desire far away and only being able to painfully imagine the exquisite deliciousness of actually having him/her near?
OR
Is it getting who we want, realizing we were right in wanting them, and needing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=69&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/04/28/desire-deseo-deliciouspainimagineeverythingsensuallali/</link>
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		<title>Dynamic Duo Separated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I have essentially lost the best thing about living in Miami, my friend Claudia. I didn&#39;t lose her per se, I introduced her to my friend Diego, they fell madly in love and decided 1 month after meeting (2 weeks after dating) to get married, and now she has moved away to Los Angeles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=68&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/04/20/dynamic-duo-separated-realitymovelos-angeleslovefriendvierealitegoodbyeadiosadieu/</link>
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		<title>They Shine Bright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They shine bright,
your eyes,
like a lighthouse
leading the way to unknown lands.
They outshine the others,
with their unspoken promise
and delicious malice.
They make me wonder
what thoughts are dancing in your mind&#8230;
They make me smile, shyly&#8230;
They warm me&#8230;
They shine bright,
your eyes,
everytime you look at me&#8230;
And that makes me
infinitely
happy.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/they-shine-bright/</link>
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		<title>Be Delicate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be delicate,
and wait&#8230;
give me time 
and I will give you
everything I have.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/04/05/be-delicate/</link>
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		<title>Sitting On The Verge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the verge.&#160;Of&#160;what?&#160;I&#39;m not sure. I just organically know that I am on the verge. On the ledge. Close to my breaking point. Yesterday, as I sat all day infront of a computer, writing writing writing the hours away, in a place surrounded by people so different than me, so foreign to what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=65&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/04/01/vergemomentsseizetempteddelicioussavor-2/</link>
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		<title>R.I.P Paul Dana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I experienced the highs and lows of life. And I saw how you can go from one to the other in an instant.
All of us have dreams. Some dreams are unrealistic, some are attainable, some fall into our lap, some we have to fight for. Such was the case of Paul Dana, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=63&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/28/pauldanairlspeedwaydeathripblissblindtragedy/</link>
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		<title>Mysterious Stranger (Part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is something I wrote yesterday during lunch. It&#8217;s a short story. I&#8217;ve finished it, but will post it in parts.)
I watched him from a table across the room, sitting alone, seemingly lost in thought. He wasn&#8217;t particularly handsome, but there was a certain je ne sais quoi that captured my attention and I could not take my eyes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=60&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/mysterious-stranger-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Dynamite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel the dynamite
ignite
inside me.
I feel the wick burn slowly,
announcing the imminent
explosion.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/21/dynamite/</link>
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		<title>The Attack Of Chemotherapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My aunt&#8217;s hair started falling out 3 days ago. She went to bed with all her hair and woke up with a pillow that looked rather like a rug. It had been over 2 weeks since the first chemo and we were hoping that since her hair hadn&#8217;t fallen out by now, that she would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=61&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/16/the-attack-of-chemotherapy/</link>
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		<title>Barefoot In My Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a recurring dream that appears consistently in my very busy dream life. The entire dream is never the same, only one particular situation: I have left the house and have forgotten to put on my shoes. So in my dream, as I&#8217;m walking around, I suddenly realize that I&#8217;m barefoot and I think: &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=59&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/barefoot-in-my-dreams/</link>
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		<title>ONE (LOVE)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it getting better, or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you, now you&#8217;ve got someone to blame.
You say: &#8221;One love, One life.&#8221; When it’s one need, in the night.
It’s one love, we get to share it. It leaves you baby if you don’t care for it.

Did I disappoint you? Or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=58&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/u2oneforgivenessdeadloveamortempleblood/</link>
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		<title>I Feel So Lonely, I Could Cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat on the floor of my bathroom last night and cried. The door was locked.  I couldn&#8217;t be too loud, I didn&#8217;t want anyone to hear. I don&#8217;t know why I cried. For everything, I suppose. I didn&#8217;t turn on the light. I was crying in that bathroom in the absolute dark, for absolutely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=57&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/06/lonelycrysademotional/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy VS. Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fantasy is an imagined situation which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator. Fantasies typically involve situations which are impossible or highly unlikely. A fantasy can be created by one person (or two) or a large group of people (like those who believe world peace is a real possibility).
Reality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=56&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/fantasy-vs-reality/</link>
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		<title>March Is Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little children wait all year. They wait for Christmas, they wait for their birthdays, they wait for the first day of school, they wait for the last day of school, they wait to grow up so they can do other things. They wait wait wait.
In this respect, I too am like a child. I wait every year for March. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=55&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/03/02/march-is-here/</link>
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		<title>Superman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my entire life I was expected to be Superman. I was expected to be the strongest one. The toughest one. The smartest one. The prettiest one. The one that solves all problems. The one that rescues everyone else.
It happened at home and at school. At home I had to be perfect. I was expected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=54&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/27/supermankyrptonitelifeweightworldshouldersprettymomdaughtermozart/</link>
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		<title>The Unfortunate Life Fiasco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking, (don&#8217;t be surprised, I often do) that there are so many things I want to do and I never do, so I must make a schedule. This is something I thought of atleast 2 weeks ago, and I still haven&#8217;t made a schedule&#8230; But, if I did eventually make a schedule, HIGH [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=53&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/23/the-unfortunate-life-fiasco/</link>
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		<title>CD-4 Cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sick. I&#8217;ve had the flu for almost 5 days now and I thought I would start getting better, but NO. Last night was the worst night so far. I had been avoiding having to take an antibiotic, but last night I cracked and downed my first dose of Zytromax. We keep a small stash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=52&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/21/cd-4-cells/</link>
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		<title>(R)EVOLUTION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am amidst an inner storm. I am struggling to look for refuge, but I am weak, and it seems so far away. I am seeking the warmth of the sun and the dryness of the shade; yet I need the power of the storm. Without the storm how will I ever fully appreciate the calm?  Without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=51&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/16/revolution/</link>
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		<title>Sleeping With The Enemy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am reading a book called &#8220;Delirio&#8221;, it&#8217;s about this man who goes away on a business trip for a few days and comes home only to realize his wife has gone insane. Desperate to find out what happened to his wife and what led her to this insanity, he begins to find out there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=50&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/13/sleeping-with-the-enemy/</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Threesomes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw something cute on someone else&#8217;s blog and I thought I&#8217;d try it out. I modified it A LOT.
I like to call it my favorite threesomes. They ARE NOT in any particular order. #1 is NOT the MOST #3 is NOT the least.
Three Cities I&#8217;ve lived in:                   
1. Bogota                                           
2. New York City                         
3. Miami                                              
Three Cities I&#8217;d like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=49&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/10/my-favorite-threesomes/</link>
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		<title>The World Is Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is mine
and I don&#8217;t care about time
or being &#8216;just fine.&#8217;
I want it all.
I want to dance
and sing songs
and scream at the top of my lungs
and walk in the rain
and be a little insane
and laugh
and jump
and soar into the sky
so I can fly high.
The world is mine
so I can do what I please
I can love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=48&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/the-world-is-mine/</link>
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		<title>Sex and Drugs and Rock n&#8217; Roll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had this fantasy today as I was on the tread-mill at the gym (yes, I&#8217;m still going to the gym thank you very much), it involved just letting go of every inhibition I have, throwing caution to the wind, and becoming a wild child.  To live the Rock Star life: Sex, Drugs and Rock n&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=47&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/sex-and-drugs-and-rock-n-roll-7/</link>
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		<title>Two Sisters, Two Hospital Beds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this as I lay on the floor of my aunt&#8217;s Hospital Room. I have a sleeping bag, pillow, and most importantly my teddy bear. My aunt is sleeping but she is bound to wake up at any minute because every 1/2 hour they come in to take her temperature, blood pressure or give her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=40&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/28/two-sisters-two-hospital-beds/</link>
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		<title>Let It Be Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My day started out fine. I went to pick up Diego, we went to the beach, he taught me the &#8216;theoritcal&#8217; part of kite-boarding, I then watched him actually kite-board to see exactly how it works. I then had a treat: I got to take pictures of him kite-boarding using his amazing camera which I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=39&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/27/let-it-be-me/</link>
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		<title>Cupid Must Remain Neutral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created two monsters. Yes, I am like Dr. Frankenstein and I&#8217;ve created two monsters. Curious? Ok, I&#8217;ll go back to the beginning. I have written in the past about my best friend Diego. Who I love and adore and who is just the ultimate magnificent guy. I have also written about my friend Claudia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=38&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/25/cupid-must-remain-neutral/</link>
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		<title>Experiencing Life As A Whale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started going to the gym again. (Feel free to take bets on how long I&#8217;ll keep going.) I went once, on Friday, and two days later, my muscles are in serious agony. My thighs and arms are dying&#8230;I&#8217;m always doing cardio, so that part doesn&#8217;t hurt me, what kills me is the weights. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=37&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/22/experiencing-life-as-a-whale/</link>
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		<title>I Shall Overcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m transitioning between two jobs, so I finally have a little time to do all the things I never have time for, yet I&#8217;m somewhat overwhelmed with so many things I want to do that I quickly realize it might me easier to do nothing. But of course, I don&#8217;t want to do &#8216;Nothing&#8217;, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=36&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/i-shall-overcome/</link>
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		<title>I Had A Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a dream last night. It was one of those long dreams that even when I woke up in the middle of the dream to go to the bathroom or drink water, I could still go back to sleep and go back into the dream. (This is a rare occurrence in my dream life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=35&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/18/i-had-a-dream/</link>
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		<title>The Lies People Tell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many lies people tell themselves. They may tell themselves they are skinny, or tall, or good-looking, or smart, or funny, or a good friend, a good parent, a good teacher; they may tell themselves they&#8217;re great athletes, good artists, generous, punctual, good cooks, great drivers, and an infinite number more, EVERYDAY. They may even tell themselves, and others, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=34&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/17/the-lies-people-tell/</link>
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		<title>Lapses of Existentialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have entered the twilight zone. A strange place made up of over-emotional moments and lapses of existentialism where I don&#8217;t give a fuck about anything. As of yesterday, I no longer have a job which means I will have a lot of free time on my hands. Which means I will have MANY more economic worries. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=33&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/14/lapses-of-existentialism/</link>
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		<title>Return of Innocence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I realized, once again, that as hard as I may try to convince myself to be a realist and to be tough minded and to not let anything &#8216;get to me&#8217;, it&#8217;s quite hard. The main obstacle in achieving this is a very big flaw I have: I believe what people tell me. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=32&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/return-of-innocence/</link>
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		<title>Please Mommy Please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I woke up at 1:37am and as hard as I tried I couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep. Last time I looked at the clock on my nightstand it was almost 4am and I was still wide awake. Nothing in particular woke me up. There wasn&#8217;t a loud noise, I didn&#8217;t have a nightmare, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=31&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/please-mommy-please/</link>
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		<title>Magic &amp; Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great weekend. My friend Diego (I already asked if I could use his name) invited my friend Claudia and I to Orlando and all we did was have fuuuun for 2 days. It was so nice to disconnect from my own personal reality and just let go and act like a 12 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=30&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/09/magic-hope/</link>
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		<title>My Own Personal Buddhist Monk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having trouble breathing at night. It&#8217;s like I can&#8217;t get enough oxygen into my lungs. It&#8217;s very strange. I find myself taking very deep breaths through my mouth in order to inhale enough oxygen. I wake up and the problem continues and them it sort of fades away. (It only happens sporadically throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=29&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/06/my-own-personal-buddhist-monk/</link>
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		<title>Heroine for the Soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a comment a faithful reader wrote about my entry from yesterday and it got me thinking again about writing and words. And the power of words. I&#8217;ve been know to say that words are like &#8216;heroine for the soul&#8217;. Words can give you the highest of highs. Sometimes when words are absent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=28&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/05/heroine-for-the-soul/</link>
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		<title>i&#8217;m afraid to tell you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my loves in life is writing. You might have realized that by now just by the fact that I have decided to dedicate time to writing and maintaining a blog. I love to write all kinds of things.
I write Short Stories, I write Plays, I write Screenplays, I write news articles, I write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=27&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/04/im-afraid-to-tell-you/</link>
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		<title>Ms. Espejo has Deceased</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a nightmare the other night. I rarerly have nightmares. It&#8217;s very hard to explain it without using props, but it involved dying of suffocation in my own car. A vacuum was being created and there was no air to breathe inside my car and I couldn&#8217;t yell to my friend Claudia for help [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=25&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/03/ms-espejo-has-deceased/</link>
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		<title>My Little Black Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2006. Wow. I remember when 2000 was a big deal. Y2k and all the hoopla surrounding it. And now it&#8217;s 6 years later and it seems like we&#8217;re all the same. The world is still the same place. Wars are still being fought, hunger still prevails, natural disasters abound, and we are all still as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=24&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2006/01/02/my-little-black-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Sabotage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sabotage is a game I used to play.
A game I invented.
A game I was a GENIUS at.
A game that is stupid. A game I hate. A concept I hate. I loathe. I detest.
When I got scared or felt myself getting too close to someone or felt too committed in a relationship, OR  felt that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=23&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/30/sabotage/</link>
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		<title>Mamma Drama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mamma Drama continues&#8230; I never have a moment of peace. If it&#8217;s not one thing, it&#8217;s another. Sometimes I wish I could just have a semblance of a normal life! Yesterday I got some bad news. My aunt called me in the middle of the day and said she had to tell me something that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=22&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/29/mamma-drama/</link>
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		<title>Voyeurism in Reverse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me if they could share my blog with someone else and I found it quite cute that they&#8217;d ask. My answer was, of course, &#8220;YES. Pass it on to whomever you like.&#8221; If I&#8217;m doing this, If I&#8217;m exposing my thoughts and feelings, my fears, my angst, my WORLD, it&#8217;s not only for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=21&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/28/voyeurism-in-reverse/</link>
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		<title>First Kiss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas has come and gone and now it&#8217;s full steam ahead toward New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8230; The biggest let-down of the year. You plan and plan and plan for the perfect New Year&#8217;s Eve celebration and inevitably it NEVER lives up to your expectations. So, I never plan. It&#8217;s only a few nights away and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=17&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/27/first-kiss/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Such Place As Far Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a year of MANY changes in my life. A year of letting go. A year of loss. A year of moving on. A year of fear &#38; uncertainty. It has been emotional. It has been tough. It has marked me forever.
I have learned many things this year, about myself, about others, about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=16&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/23/theres-no-such-place-as-far-away/</link>
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		<title>Mamma Mia Let Me Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mom is back home. Hallelujah. But, the drama continues. She is still torturing my grandmother about EVERYTHING. The hospital bill is ENORMOUS (even with a discount we got for knowing one of the owners of the hospital) and instead of looking for a SOLUTION like a normal human being, all my mother can think of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=15&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/22/mamma-mia-let-me-go/</link>
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		<title>Seascape With Sharks and Dancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to produce a play in Miami. FYI: there is NO theater culture in Miami. So I want to do something that is VERY HARD to do. I have the play I want. I have a producer, I have the two actors (myself and one of my friends- it&#8217;s a two person play), I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=14&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/21/seascape-with-sharks-and-dancer/</link>
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		<title>Vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vulnerable: Susceptible to physical or emotional injury.
We often leave our selves vulnerable to the world around us and don&#8217;t seem to mind. We walk around late at night with money in our wallets, we participate in high risk activities such as racing cars, sky diving, bungee jumping&#8230; I myself recently had a near death experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=13&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/vulnerability/</link>
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		<title>Longing For Something</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ My friend Rodrigo took this picture of me recently in L.A. When I look at it,  it makes me feel like I&#8217;m in the middle of the Sahara Desert, in some other time, longing for something&#8230;
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/longing-for-something/</link>
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		<title>Tus Calles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday Monday. Is it fair that there are five work days a week and only 2 weekend days? Shouldn&#39;t it be a bit more balanced? Like 4 work days and 3 weekend days? Weekends fly. I don&#39;t know why. On Friday it was my friend Claudia&#39;s birthday and we went out to PARTY. We had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=10&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/19/10/</link>
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		<title>Suffocation is a horrible way of dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was insulted by my mother&#8217;s doctor. He said that why did I have to wait until my mother was dying in her room to do something about it. I wanted to kill him. He has NO IDEA! He doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about. He doesn&#8217;t know how long we&#8217;ve been trying/begging/pleading with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=9&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/suffocation-is-a-horrible-way-of-dying/</link>
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		<title>How should I know who&#8217;s blood it is?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom had her first blood transfusion today. She was petrified. She was afraid they would put in the wrong blood type. To be honest, I was a little scared too. You here about these kinds of things all the time. It was so gut wrenching to hear her so scared and sad and scattered. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=8&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/how-should-i-know-whos-blood-it-is/</link>
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		<title>Hospitalized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom was hospitalized yesterday. After years of begging her to do SOMETHING to get better she decided to let her self be persuaded to go. She needs a blood transfusion and a liver transplant and it&#8217;s still unclear exactly how long she&#8217;s going to be in the hospital, but at least SHE&#8217;S THERE! She can&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lali.wordpress.com&blog=38713&post=7&subd=lali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/13/hospitalized/</link>
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		<title>Self Destruction Ends</title>
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3:07am. I&#8217;ve destroyed what I love most about my self, my hair.
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		<link>http://lali.wordpress.com/2005/12/12/self-destruction-ends/</link>
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