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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;More than two centuries after Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility, the world around love has changed almost beyond recognition.&#160;We meet through dating apps instead of country visits.&#160;Messages arrive instantly instead of by letter.&#160;Women have freedoms Elinor and Marianne could scarcely have imagined.&#160;Marriage is no longer the only path to financial security.&#160;And yet many of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Convenience Store Woman: 5 American Stories About Marriage and Freedom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman begins with a deceptively simple question: what if a person is content with a life that society considers incomplete?&#160;Keiko Furukura does not seem to need marriage, status, ambition, or conventional adulthood in the way people expect. Her life forces readers to ask whether “normal” is really a truth, or merely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Influence Explained: Robert Cialdini’s Persuasion Playbook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if Robert Cialdini explored Influence with the mentors he most respected—testing where persuasion ends and manipulation begins?Introduction by Robert CialdiniInfluence Explained is my invitation to slow down and notice something humbling: most of the time we don’t choose with pure deliberation—we choose with cues. Not because we’re careless, but because the world is loud, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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