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		<title>Klara and the Sun Explained: What Makes Us Human?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction by KlaraWhen I first met Josie, I was standing near a store window, watching the Sun.&#160;I had been created to be an Artificial Friend. My purpose was to observe, learn, and provide companionship to a child who would choose me. I knew there were newer models with greater abilities, and I understood that customers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reverend Moon&#8217;s 2026 Message: Forgive, Love and Unite</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Main Introduction&#160;By Nick Sasaki&#160;&#160;What if one of the most controversial religious leaders of the twentieth century had something meaningful to say about America's divisions today?&#160;Reverend Sun Myung Moon is a figure who inspires very different reactions. Some admire his teachings on family, love, and reconciliation. Others strongly disagree with his theology.&#160;I respect those differences. My [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inspired by Narnia&#8217;s Ending: 3 Stories of Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aslan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronicles of Narnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finding Home]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hope and Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new beginnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Original Short Stories]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;There comes a moment in almost every life when we discover that we cannot go back.&#160;The house where we grew up belongs to someone else. The people who once gathered around our dinner table are no longer there. A talent that defined us begins to fade. A child grows up and leaves home. Someone we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Happened to Susan in Narnia? Why C.S. Lewis Left Her Behind</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rain had been falling against the windows of The Kilns for most of the evening.&#160;Inside, the fire had burned down to a red glow. Books covered the table. Some were open. Others had scraps of paper marking particular pages. C.S. Lewis sat at one end with his pipe resting beside him. Michael Ward had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Aslan Jesus? What C.S. Lewis Really Meant in Narnia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Edmund Pevensie had avoided the Stone Table for years.&#160;He had crossed battlefields since then. He had worn a crown. He had judged disputes between kings and spoken calmly in rooms where angry men reached for swords.&#160;Yet he had never wanted to come back here.&#160;Morning was beginning over Narnia.&#160;The great Stone Table lay split from end [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sun Also Rises Centennial Stories: 5 Modern Lives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brett Ashley]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;The Sun Also Rises Today: Five Stories About the Life That RemainsA century after The Sun Also Rises, the world looks almost nothing like Hemingway’s. We carry entire libraries in our pockets. We can work from another continent, choose from thousands of potential partners, reinvent careers, cross oceans overnight, and remain connected almost everywhere. Yet [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sun Also Rises Themes &#038; Analysis: Questions That Still Matter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brett Ashley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Min Jin Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mira Jacob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Romero]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Cohn]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;A hundred years after The Sun Also Rises first appeared, the world surrounding Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley is almost unrecognizable. The wars are different, travel is faster, relationships are mediated through phones, gender roles have changed, and people possess freedoms Hemingway’s characters could scarcely have imagined. Yet the novel’s deepest questions have not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sun Also Rises Centennial: Are We a Lost Generation?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;One hundred years after The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s characters still feel unexpectedly close to us.&#160;Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, and Bill Gorton lived in the shadow of the First World War. They inherited a world in which familiar ideas about patriotism, masculinity, love, religion, marriage, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Antidote by Jesse Lee Peterson: Anger, Forgiveness &#038; Freedom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What if the person controlling your life isn't standing in front of you anymore?&#160;It might be the father who left, the mother who hurt you, the person who betrayed you, or someone whose apology you have waited years to hear. Jesse Lee Peterson's The Antidote begins with a provocative idea: anger, blame, resentment, and victimhood [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One God, Three Messengers: Jesus, Muhammad &#038; Rev. Moon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;On September 30, 2026, a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv nearly fell from the sky. The co-pilot attacked the captain with the cockpit's emergency axe, and the plane plunged thousands of feet. The captain was wounded but still got the cockpit door open, and passengers rushed in and overpowered the attacker. Reserve pilots landed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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