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	<description>Do you want to hear a true German und a Euro-American exchange their stories?  Then this is your blog. Join us in exploring the significance of culture and traditions in everyday life.</description>
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		<title>Last post</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/last-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>truegerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, last week, Francesca died. As this blog was a shared project of two friends, this is my last post. There will be  no other story. Truegerman &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1774&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Germany but Haiti</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/not-germany-but-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More ways to help: http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/Haitiappeal For UK readers http://www.sos-kinderdorf.de/ For readers from Germany. They are already in Haiti, which makes them first responders, but unfortunately means that they were in harms way. I´ve been donating to SOS every month and &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/not-germany-but-haiti/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1761&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frohe Weihnacht</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/frohe-weihnacht/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lettersfromeurope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[und ein frohes Neues Jahr! Enjoy this precious time of year &#8230; Francesca and TrueGerman<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1744&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woman in a gilded Cage</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/woman-in-a-gilded-cage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lettersfromeurope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this was an unusual take on the debate of working women. &#8220;Stop the government from forcing our women to abandon their children during the first three years of their childhood by making them go back to work.&#8221; Huh, are &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/woman-in-a-gilded-cage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1719&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German Health Care through my Window</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lettersfromeurope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I might have mentioned before that I grew up in Germany.  I live german style. One way of german life is to always have health insurance. I left my parents insurance when I became a student and immediately signed up to &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/german-health-care-through-my-window/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1666&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my bike</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/i-like-to-ride-my-bicycle-i-like-to-ride-my-bike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was the first time in two months that I met my writing friends. I was pleasantly surprised, as usual, how easy it is to get back into the routine of writing on command, during our freewriting exercise. Afterwards &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/i-like-to-ride-my-bicycle-i-like-to-ride-my-bike/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1678&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On health insurance and bicycles</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/on-health-insurance-and-bicycles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>truegerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wanted to write about cycling. Now I see the head of Francesca´s post &#8212; obviously she wants to write about health insurance. Hmmm. I know there was thunder and lightening in the US about Barack Obamas proposals for a &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/on-health-insurance-and-bicycles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1667&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/hospitality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>truegerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never visit a German unannounced, guidebooks to Germany say. First, I wanted to protest. The way I grew up, everybody walked into our house when they wanted to. Everybody was welcome and everybody got something to eat. &#8220;Fünf sind geladen, &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/hospitality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1646&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>truegerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germans love long words. We have an easy way to create them by stitching several nouns together. A Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän works as a captain for the  Danube steamship company. Though this word isn´t used much any more (when did you see your &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1629&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Queue &#8211; yes, we do</title>
		<link>http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/1612/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wanted to  buy a railway ticket. I put on comfortable shoes, expecting to have to wait in line for a long time.  Then, the big surprise at the station. I had to wait, but I could sit on &#8230; <a href="http://lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/1612/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lettersfromgermany.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5143121&amp;post=1612&amp;subd=lettersfromgermany&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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