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		<title>Until Then</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About four months after Ashley died, Susan and Justin and I took a trip from our home in Texas to visit some friends in Tennessee and then spend a few days in the Great Smoky Mountains. Driving late at night, somewhere between Memphis and Nashville, the idea for a song began growing in my head. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe it has been eight years: November 24, 2001. Sometimes it seems as though it was only yesterday that you left us, Ashley. Then there are moments when it seems that a lifetime has passed since that awful day. I still miss you like crazy. We&#8217;re doing OK, though. You taught us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashley&#8217;s Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months after my daughter Ashley died, I called a friend and asked him to meet me for lunch. Andy Moya is one of those creative types who seems to be good at everything he does. He is a graphics artist/designer by trade, and a very talented musician by avocation. I was captivated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2008/11/why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had never prayed as hard in my life as I did the morning of March 16, 1997. It was a Sunday morning, about 6:30, and I was driving from Children&#8217;s Medical Center in Dallas back to our house about 35 minutes away. Four hours earlier, Susan and I had been told by a doctor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Were You?</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2008/09/where-were-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Country singer Alan Jackson sang a song entitled &#8220;Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)?&#8221;, referring to that fateful day in 2001 that will forever be remembered simply as &#8220;Nine Eleven&#8221;. Do you remember where you were? I will never forget. Susan and I were driving from Waxahachie to Dallas, taking Ashley to Children&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashley&#8217;s Photo Shoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ashley wanted to be an actor. She was in Drama in junior high and really enjoyed it. When a letter arrived in the mail from a talent agency in Dallas, addressed to her, Ashley lit up. The agency had some spots open for new clients, and would be interviewing prospects in the near future. Ashley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Cancer Awareness</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2008/09/childhood-cancer-awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month . My daughter Ashley died of cancer in November 2001. She was 14 years old. Diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was almost 10, she went through a year-and-a-half of treatments, was cancer-free for three years, and then relapsed in the Fall of 2001. She survived only two-and-a-half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today She Would Be 20</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2007/04/today-she-would-be-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Friday, April 27, 2007. Today, she would be 20. Ashley Jean O&#8217;Rear was born on April 27, 1987, in Corpus Christi, Texas. I was 25 years old, Susan was 22, and Ashley was our first child. We were young, and we were so excited to have been blessed by God with such a [...]]]></description>
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