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		<title>No way, I want Jose!</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2012/01/25/no-way-i-want-jose/70127</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sue and I had a sneaky day trip down the south coast away from work recently — she’s a dreadful influence on me. We ate breakfast in Brighton Le Sands, watched the planes landing and taking off and caught up on the kids, boyfriends (hers, I’m still looking) and work. We walked across the road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get me the hell outta here</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/12/13/get-me-the-hell-outta-here/68012</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You know, if you just hold still, your leg wouldn’t get stuck in this elf stocking.” I picked up a tiny green pointy-toed elf from the change table. His legs were kicking high. He giggled. I propped him up against his brother Beau who was decked out as a miniature Santa. I jumped around, taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini vampire chronicles</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/11/22/mini-vampire-chronicles/66190</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a singular fang hanging over Beau’s lip. He was too busy fixing his clothes to hold his lightsaber to tuck it back in. “Daddy, can you tie my cape?” Chick had a set of black plastic fangs protruding from his mouth. “Magic word, Chickles?” “Pleaseshh,” he sucked back some dribble. Mythical evil is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions on a kitchen floor</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/11/15/confessions-on-a-kitchen-floor/65646</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’ve smiled for long enough — now, can we go?” I begged Dawn to wrap up the parent drivel on the school’s church hall steps last Saturday night. All the kids were dressed in their nice clothes, rolling around the grass and climbing trees. I noticed one of the girls lying flat on the ground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not out to my hairdresser</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/10/25/im-not-out-to-my-hairdresser/64382</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/10/25/im-not-out-to-my-hairdresser/64382#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sally my hairdresser has a razor blade swiftly slicing hair from the top of my head. Our relationship has blossomed from congenial chit-chat to in-depth discussions about grandchildren, children, cooking eggplant and leaving countries in times of war. We even time my haircuts for when either of us is away so that there are limits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If children were presidents</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/10/11/if-children-were-presidents/63574</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m completely drawn into the book I’m reading, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Narrated by ‘Death’, its writing style and storyline have captured my imagination. At the same time, it’s making me think about how humans haven’t progressed far in terms of persecution. The protagonist Liesel is a sturdy figure, a young girl in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our favourite Ford</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/08/16/our-favourite-ford/59272</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Lucas has given many dads the world over a platform to have something in common with their sons. It’s incredible how the men and I can talk for hours, driving their mother to frustration, about sabers, starships and Sith Lords. I arrived for the weekend the other Friday night and saw the men glued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When tomorrow comes</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/08/09/when-tomorrow-comes/58660</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stood on the street in front of work, jacketed people hurry home around me and I am standing, staring at my phone. What do I do? The sky is darkening rapidly. I look back at the phone and text my mate Shakespeare. I run up the alleyway near work and pray the bus blasts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to the editor – Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-opinion/2011/05/31/letters-to-the-editor-%e2%80%93-melbourne-3/53382</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-opinion/2011/05/31/letters-to-the-editor-%e2%80%93-melbourne-3/53382#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 23:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAY HATE GATHERING #1 Barry O’Feral should not be using $50,000 of taxpayers money to promote hate against us (‘Gay hate gathering for Sydney’, SSO 1074). Business Events Sydney has no place promoting violence and hate. Why are we paying for a mob of far right ‘family values’ American fundamentalists to get people to bash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy dearest &#8211; toy story</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/05/17/daddy-dearest-toy-story/52223</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/2011/05/17/daddy-dearest-toy-story/52223#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mini men ran through the gate and landed on my tummy as I lay on my daybed in the autumn sun. Beau produced a bag full of soft toys and handed me two of them. “Dad, you remember this one?” He held up Mr Mountie Moose. “Aww gosh, Beau, I forgot all about him.” [...]]]></description>
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