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		<title>Make a Global End to Violence Against Women a Congressional Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early February, amid the presidential budget frenzy and discussions of spending freezes, Senate and House Congressional champions announced the reintroduction of the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA). Lead sponsors of the IVAWA are Senator Kerry, Senator Boxer, Senator Snowe, Congressman Delahunt, Congressman Poe and Congresswoman Schakowsky. Together these members reaffirmed their commitment to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=973&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Having ‘The Talk’: Parents, Teens and Dating Abuse in the Tech Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, during an otherwise innocuous conversation, one of my oldest and dearest friends relayed the following story about her 17-year-old daughter:
“Sophie [not her real name] and her boyfriend were at a party last weekend, and he got mad about something she said, and he literally picked her up by her shirt and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=940&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give us some More!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More magazine&#8217;s 2010 Reinvention Convention kicks off in Washington, DC in a few weeks! It&#8217;s an annual event for women &#8211; over 40, and also under 40 &#8211; looking to reinvent  their lives in any and every way.
JWI will be there &#8211; Monday, March 8th., in downtown D.C. We can&#8217;t wait to soak up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=961&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steph&#8217;s story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Happened:
The first time I remember my boyfriend hitting me was last year. I was driving and we were a block from my parent&#8217;s house. He got mad and had a habit of smacking at my mouth. He hit me in the mouth and I lost control of the car. I blew out the tyre [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=958&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>get teens talking about dating abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month has just begun, creating a perfect opportunity to educate and engage with teens in discussions about communication in relationships and friendships.


JWI just launched “Love Your Neighbor, Love Yourself: Building Healthy Relationships,” in partnership with United Synagogue Youth (USY). This interactive program is providing USY educators around the United States with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=954&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Share your story to shape the work that&#8217;s ending dating violence.</title>
		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2010/02/03/share-your-story-and-shape-the-work-thats-ending-dating-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we know February is about more than presidents and valentines, let&#8217;s kick off Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month with an honest conversation.
JWI is asking anyone who is a teen, recently was a teen, or works directly with teens for help through this short anonymous survey. The voices of those who have experienced dating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=944&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official: February is ‘National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year the entire month of February is dedicated to raising awareness about dating violence: Senator Mike Crapo-R (ID) and Senator Lieberman-I (CT) have introduced a resolution proclaiming February 2010 as the first ‘National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.’
One in three adolescent girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=937&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fashion power player in Israel lobbies to change attitudes &#8211; and laws &#8211; about healthy bodies</title>
		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2009/12/22/a-fashion-power-player-in-israel-lobbies-to-change-attitudes-and-laws-about-healthy-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Also  see The Jerusalem Post&#8217;s recent video on this story: &#8216;Skinny is ugly&#8217; : Israeli fashion photographer Adi Barkan tackles the &#8220;anorexic&#8221; industry.





(from Wikipedia)
Adi Barkan is an Israeli fashion photographer and model agent who has campaigned for legislation banning the use of anorexic models.
Barkan worked as a fashion photographer for fifteen years in Paris, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=933&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with Action!</title>
		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2009/11/25/celebrate-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women-with-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Violence against women is a crippling problem. It destroys families and divides communities, and no nation is immune. In some countries, 70% of women and girls will experience violence in their lifetime. The reverberating impact of this violence is felt all over the world.
November 25th is the 10th annual observance of the International Day for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=930&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stupak-Pitts Amendment Sets Women Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Saturday evening’s House vote on health care reform, the choice community- advocates, Members of Congress, the grassroots network- have been scrambling to understand how this 11th hour anti-abortion amendment passed and what we can do to keep the egregious language out of the Senate bill.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=922&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women are the major beneficiaries of health care reform: Our voices must be heard on Capitol Hill!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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On Saturday evening the House of Representatives will vote on health care reform. Now is the time for YOU to make the call!
CALL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS AT 1-877-264-4226. The switchboard will ask for your home phone number and then direct you to the correct office.
When connected to your Representative&#8217;s office, give them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=918&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On The Page, Poet Mourns Daughter&#8217;s Murder</title>
		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2009/10/31/on-the-page-poet-mourns-daughters-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh Air from WHYY &#8211; originally aired July 29, 2009.

Terry Gross interviews poet Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, whose collection of poems, Slamming Open the Door, documents the aftermath of the murder of her daughter Leidy Bonanno.
Leidy was found dead in her apartment in 2003, strangled with a telephone cord by an ex-boyfriend. She had recently graduated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=635&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fran&#8217;s story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1981 I was a stay-at-home mom (former RN), married to a prominent physician in the community.
I knew my husband was controlling, and did not manage his anger well, because he yelled a lot, and I was not perfect . He made me feel terribly small as a woman, wife and mother, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=788&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>legislative update: health care reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today House Democratic leaders unveiled their health care reform legislation, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by dozens of congressional supporters, explained that few pieces of legislation define the character of a nation- health care reform will shape future generations, “progress will be measured by the success of the American family to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=911&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father accused of murdering his 15-year-old daughter in &#8216;honour killing&#8217; told her to &#8216;kiss her youngest brother goodbye&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lucy Ballinger for MailOnline, October 21, 2009
A schoolgirl murdered by her father in an &#8216;honour killing&#8217; was told to kiss her brother goodbye the day she went missing, a court has heard.
Mehmet Goren, 45, told his daughter Tulay, 15, to let her brother embrace her one last time in an emotional farewell, it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=908&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was raised in a very secular home.  Though my mother was Jewish by blood, the only real mention of G-d was a family member telling me that G-d punishes the wicked and that bad things happen to bad people.  I tried very hard to be good.
When I was 17, I was in a relationship [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=676&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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A 91-year-old Spokane woman died after she was found living in squalor, suffering severe neglect at the hands of her grandson.

A 60-year-old Ottawa County woman spent four months behind bars for abusing her elderly father.
Nearly five million cases of elder abuse occur each year, but 85% go unreported.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every word counts in domestic violence reporting
This year, for DVAM, JWI is focusing on the media. Last week we issued an action alert asking our supporters to send letters to ten major newspapers across the country – calling on  journalists to tell the whole story when reporting incidents of domestic violence.
Nobody has been more surprised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=902&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I.
eggshells are fragile
they easily break
you walk on them carefully,
for safety’s sake.
And yet with each  step
you surely know
as eggshells come
and eggshells go
that break they will
with a crunch and crackle
and then you will feel
the collar and shackle.
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A tightrope,
that’s different
that you can master
and walk it quite nimbly;
avoiding disaster.
A tightrope is narrow
so do watch your step;
and maintain your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=808&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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From a June 2009 Today show report:
When Heather Thompson learned her ex-husband was about to be released from prison some 15 years after he beat her to within an inch of her life — the prison from which he had written her a letter in which he vowed to finish the job when he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=795&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started my journey of healing, one of my strongest  memories was the voice of my inner child screaming, “Please don’t hurt me,  Daddy!” Oh, he didn’t beat me. Instead, his violence took the form of molesting  me, starting at the age of two, raping me at the age of nine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=888&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CNN: &#8216;Dance&#8217; judge Murphy says she was abused wife</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch Mary Murphy&#8217;s October 20th interview with Larry King.
By  Alan Duke

published on CNN.com, October 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) &#8212; TV dance judge Mary Murphy said singer Chris Brown&#8217;s attack on his girlfriend, Rihanna, prompted her to talk publicly about spousal abuse that she says she suffered first as a teenage bride three decades [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=881&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors call incidents surprisingly common in family violence cases
By Tricia Bishop
published in The Baltimore Sun, October 20, 2009

A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for biting off a portion of his former girlfriend&#8217;s nose, a disturbingly intimate form of violence that prosecutors say is surprisingly prevalent in family violence cases.
Charles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=873&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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This 2006 Emmy nominated film about teen dating abuse and violence shows real teens telling their stories of dating abuse and violence. The film describes how dating abuse and violence starts, how it progresses, how the abuser acts, and how to recognize it.
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Anne Scripps Douglas lived the typical life of a battered woman — the whispered telephone calls, the lies to friends and family, the coded messages to the few she could trust. Like a frightened animal she jumped at every loud sound, each ring of the phone, and most of all at the drunken curses of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=268&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Woman&#8217;s Glory</title>
		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2009/10/19/a-womans-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep looking in the mirror and crying. I can&#8217;t stand to see myself. My hair was down below my waist. I hadn&#8217;t cut it in over twenty years. Now look at me.

 
 He didn&#8217;t speak to me during supper. He had been calling me all day, but I was working in the garden, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=864&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christina Aguilera: &#8220;Growing up, I did not feel safe.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop star Christina Aguilera recently revealed the abuse she and her family suffered when she was a child, and how she overcame the pain through music.  (See 1:30 &#8211; 4:45)

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		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2009/10/17/gps-to-warn-domestic-violence-victims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(originally aired on NPR August 8, 2008)

This week, the governor of Illinois signed legislation that will allow the state&#8217;s judges to tag domestic violent offenders with GPS tracking devices. The abusers&#8217; victims will get monitors that warn them if their attacker is in the area. Alex Chadwick talks with Michael Bischof, who spearheaded the movement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=831&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heather&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://jwiblog.org/2009/10/16/heathers-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello.
My name is Heather, and I wanted to share my story with  you.
I am a sister, daughter, friend, dreamer, student, pianist,  future radiologist, full time customer service rep, woman, and a hopeless  romantic.  I’m also a survivor of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and  domestic violence.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened:
I was a single dad with children and remarried. What an idiot I was. I should have spotted the warning signs. Whenever anything went wrong, she&#8217;d blame me. Anyway, it turned into a living nighmare within a year of being married. She took every opportunity to belittle me. When in a temper, she often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jwiblog.org&blog=1230378&post=763&subd=jewishwomeninternational&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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