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          <title>Ask Emily: Parents disagree on punishment for son who shoplifted</title>
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Dear Emily: The other day I got a call from a store clerk who caught my 12-year-old son shoplifting.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Obituaries</title>
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Michael D. Coffey, 58, of Stafford County, died Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 at his home. Survivors include his wife, Margaret; his children, Robert M. Coffey and Jennifer A. Coffey; and four brothers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Williams: And they call it puppy love</title>
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Do our dogs really love us? For some reason this continues to be a hotly contested debate among animal scientists. A debate also continues over whether or not dogs experience any emotions continues.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ask Emily: Reader makes bad impression with boyfriend&#8217;s mom</title>
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Dear Emily: My boyfriend took me to meet his parents for the first time last week, and his mom made us dinner. Afterwards, I offered to help clear the table, and when I did, I accidentally broke one of her good, antique teapots.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Ask Emily: Parent can&#8217;t afford teen&#8217;s clubs</title>
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Dear Emily: I have a 15-year-old son in school who wants to join a million different clubs and play every sport he can. I just can&#8217;t afford all of these extra costs though.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>No dogs allowed?</title>
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I love the looks on people&#8217;s faces when they see my dog Andrew sitting on my lap during an airplane trip. It&#8217;s so much fun to watch the double takes and stares we get when he struts down the concourse on our way to the boarding gate.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:37:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>&#8216;Reborning&#8217; practice a tad too creepy</title>
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Color me intolerant if you want, but this is ridiculous.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Halloween a &#8216;Project Runway&#8217; for dogs</title>
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Laurie Williams is the owner of Pup &#8216;N Iron Canine Fitness &amp; Learning Center in Stafford. She recently appreared on the CBS reality show, &#8220;Greatest American Dog,&#8221; with her Maltese, Andrew. If you have a question for Laurie, sent it to info@staffordcountysun.com, and you may see it published in a future column. Please consult your pet&#8217;s veterinarian for medical pet-related questions. With Halloween just around the corner we&#8217;re going to be seeing a lot more people dressed in very mysterious ways.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Horace says Americans don&#8217;t have the &#8216;write&#8217; stuff</title>
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Normally, I pay little attention to who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. With my English major days far behind me, I rarely seek out any book that &#8220;uncovers the precipice of everday prattle in the quest for the melancholic soul of the female experience,&#8220; a description constructed entirely from the one-sentence blurbs about the last three winners at nobelprize.org.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>&#8216;Petiquette&#8217; and pet peeves</title>
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Whenever I meet someone who claims to not like dogs (yes, those people do exist &#8212; unbelievably so!), I will usually press to find out the reason why.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Parenting: Holding parties for stuffed animals and other wacky parental duties</title>
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I&#8217;m wearing a conical party hat as I write this.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Never too early to learn about money</title>
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Children can learn money lessons, too.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Husband: Wife needs to be more secure</title>
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My wife &#8220;Ellie&#8221; feels she is getting older, as we all do at some point, but the difference is, she is letting it bother her to an extreme degree.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>WILLIAMS: What makes a great dog?</title>
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Some of you may have gotten the opportunity to watch the CBS reality show this summer, &#8220;Greatest American Dog,&#8221; which I had the pleasure of participating in with my dog Andrew.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: How will your kids remember you?</title>
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 &#8220;A piece of advice he gave me once was: Never make athletes your heroes. They are humans and they make mistakes also. Ladies and gentlemen, I guess I didn&#8217;t listen to that advice very good. So at this time I&#8217;d like to introduce to you my hero, my mentor, my father, Emmitt Thomas.&#8221;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Turning into our own parents</title>
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Of all the revelations in raising a child, one of the most striking is a transformation, not with the offspring but with the parent.
Its onset is subtle, but it sure makes a splash when it hits.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Kids socialize high&#45;tech way</title>
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When I was a kid &#8212; which, these days, seems like a long, long time ago &#8212; the rules of social engagement seemed clear. You had friends who were just school chums. You didn&#8217;t hang out with them, you didn&#8217;t call them.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Olympics offer chance to teach</title>
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The Olympics are now under way and, for the first time in years, that&#8217;s generating some excitement in my home.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>BLANKENSHIP: Talking back to the newsmakers</title>
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It&#8217;s quotation time. Check this stuff I&#8217;ve collected from the Internet in recent weeks, in no particularly logical order, with retorts and such. Enjoy.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Car rides, toddlers don&#8217;t mix</title>
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Oil and water mix better than do toddlers and long car rides.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Parents tell tall tales too often</title>
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We parents are liars. It&#8217;s not nice to think about, but it&#8217;s true. We parents fudge the truth.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Patriotism in perspective: 1776 vs. 2008</title>
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Independence Day celebrations are among the most tangible expressions of American pride. They take an invisible quality&#8212;patriotism&#8212;and make it visible and audible through fireworks, parades and concerts. But how does today&#8217;s patriotism compare with the first patriots?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Proud parent moments understood</title>
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Deborah Ledford was a top athlete i her day. A world-ranked swimmer in the late 1960s, she failed to make the 1968 Olympics, but she won a silver medal at the 1967 World University Games in Tokyo.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Good going, Meredith Vieira</title>
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Normally I wouldn&#8217;t place TV&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show co-anchor among the legends of journalism, but she sure did the right thing last week when interviewing country crooner and celebrity dad Billy Ray Cyrus           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>ASK EMILY: Sometimes a dream job is nothing but that</title>
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Dear Emily: I found an opening a month ago for my dream job. I applied and was fortunate enough to get an interview. Unfortunately, the company gave the job to someone with more experience.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>When Barney is big news</title>
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All parents face this turning point           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:49:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>HOLLIFIELD: Please let me keep my pants</title>
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I had a decision to make: Should I slip into the bright red boxer briefs, dig through the dirty clothes or go commando?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:27:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>COUNTRY CONNECTION: Robert Plant sums up state of country</title>
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&#8216;I&#8217;d like to say how peculiar it is to be here.&#8220; With those words, Robert Plant may have summed up the state of country music with a brevity that would make even Alan Jackson say, &#8220;You know, he nailed it with that line.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>POP CULTURE: &#8216;Rock of Love&#8217; final&#233; delivers</title>
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Poison&#8217;s Bret Michaels finds his girl           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>ASK EMILY: Reader&#8217;s mate doesn&#8217;t impress on dancefloor</title>
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Dear Emily: I have been dating &#8220;Julie&#8221; for three months, and am having a problem with our relationship.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>HOLLIFIELD: It&#8217;s official: No state cocktail</title>
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Visitors to and residents of Louisiana will not get a chance to chug the state&#8217;s official cocktail and wake up on a French Quarter sidewalk with no wallet, no memory and no pants.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: Pregnant man, child might pay</title>
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It&#8217;s not unusual for my wife to rush in from work and announce that she must immediately turn on &#8220;Oprah.&#8221; An episode last week also piqued my interest.
That is a semi-rare occurrence. I&#8217;m not an Oprah-hater like lots of guys, but it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m tuning in right at 4 p.m. every day, either.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>POP CULTURE: Toe at risk at Masters</title>
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If someone came up to me and said, &#8220;All right Dave, if you give us one of your toes, we will let you play one round of golf at Augusta National at the date and time of your choosing,&#8221; I would start taking off my socks and shoes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>PARENTING: When to say when in having children</title>
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The progression amazes me. When you get married &#8212; indeed, sometimes only minutes after &#8212;&nbsp; everyone starts asking when you&#8217;re going to have kids.
 And then when you have a child, another question comes up. This one takes a bit longer to germinate, but it certainly comes before your firstborn is 2 years old: When are you having another one?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:28:01 EST</pubDate>
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