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	<title>Amazon Rising: Nikki Dreams</title>
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	<description>A Proud Woman Finding Her Way</description>
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		<title>Self Inflicted Wounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you draw pain?
What does sorrow look like?
What shape is hurt?
What color is sadness?
How do you erase what cannot be undone?





		
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		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2010/03/self-inflicted-wounds/</link>
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		<title>She Walks In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stillness of the room binds me to the chair.
Waiting.
Wondering.
Thoughts confronted by thoughts.
I scan the room for something to distract me.
The sound of running water barely escapes the bathroom door.
Scented candles burn unseen.
The warm light flickers beneath the door along the hardwood floor.
Her instructions to wait in the den echo in my head.
I cannot help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2010/02/she-walks-in/</link>
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		<title>A Bag of Apples, Pears and the Orange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on a true story.
A woman walks into a local grocer to purchase apples for an apple. It&#8217;s her daughter&#8217;s birthday and she loves  mom&#8217;s Granny Smith apple pie. Anna likes all kinds of pies but today she wants the apple pie. Mom grabs a cart and happily strolls the isles for all the things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2010/01/a-bag-of-apples-pears-and-the-orange/</link>
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		<title>Cali: Fairytales and Make Believe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am wondering. Did Cinderella actually dance in those glass slippers? Or is the glass slipper really a metaphor for the endless possibilities in life if you just believe it in your heart? I have been living this fairytale of sorts for the past 2 years now. But the fairytale is real. I never thought the glass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2010/01/cali-fairytales-and-make-believe/</link>
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		<title>Gender Identity in the Gay and Lesbian Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so glad to see a video like this done by a lesbian couple on a mainstream LGBT web site like AfterEllen. I think this is a very important topic even outside of the transgender community. Please watch it and see the comments being posted on the website.  My comment is also posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2010/01/gender-identity-in-the-gay-and-lesbian-community/</link>
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		<title>The Blue Fairy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The greatest powers in the universe cannot hold back tears that need to flow free. Mine had been building for a few weeks. I did not cry long or particularly hard. This time I had my mother their to catch me. So many times I have cried in the last 2 years that I wished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2009/12/the-blue-fairy/</link>
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		<title>That Which is Important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Pronunciation:&#160;\im-?p?r-t?nt,&#160;especially Southern &#38; New England -t?nt, -d?nt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English importante, from Medieval Latin important-, importans, present participle of importare to signify
Marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence : valuable in content or relationship

As a child growing up in a series of&#160;affluent&#160;neighborhoods, I learned only some of things I needed to live a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2009/11/that-which-is-important/</link>
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		<title>To Be. Or Not to Be&#8230; In Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.&#8221; &#8211; H.H. The Dalai Lama

&#8220;Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2009/11/to-be-or-not-to-be-in-love/</link>
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		<title>Being a Queer Woman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meh. Where to start?
A new blog. A new life. A new&#8230; well pretty much EVERY fricking thing in my life is new since I came out to the world in May 2008. Who, What May 2008? Are you kidding me? What are you 12? What took you so damn long?
Hmm&#8230; good question.
When I was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nikkidreams.com/2009/11/being-a-queer-woman/</link>
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