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		<title>Epilogue (July 27)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carmel, IN 6:19pm I have been home now for one week. The first thing I ate was a chicken BLT, the next twenty items I consumed were probably fresh fruit, the last of the lice in my hair vanquished after I attacked them with Permethrin 1%, I realized I&#8217;d picked up impetigo (an easily curable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=229&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End&#8230;just another way of saying the start of something new</title>
		<link>http://lessofatheory.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/the-end-of-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I finally got to go to a Tamil Pentecostal service this morning with Jancy and Sumita at 7:30am. Everyone sat on the floor &#8211; women on the left, and men on the right. There were about three times as many women as men, and only a handful of children. It really reminded me of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=216&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The last dance (July 18)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked into department after the last child had been carried, and knelt beside Dr. Robinson. ‘Hi,’ I said, and he smiled at me. ‘Can you have Mani’s therapist do what we were talking about yesterday, today?’ He said he would, so I made my rounds in department, changing Parvitra, talking to Barath, playing with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=210&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still fighting for Mani&#8230; (July 17)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I changed my original plans of going into Chennai directly after feeding, and instead waited until 11:30 so I could talk to Robinson at 11. I had never talked to him until I asked him, sometime around 10 when he walked past me to wash his hands, if I could talk to him during his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=208&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mani, Mani, Mani (July 16)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really wanted to take Mani for another walk, since he enjoyed it so much yesterday, and I want to spend as much time with him as possible before I go. So I invited Fabio to come with Fatima, and we recruited Olivia and Melissa to come with and carry Derlin and Jordiga. Mani reacted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=206&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battlefield to dance floor (July 16)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of the volunteers went down to department this morning at 11:30, staying until feeding was over at 1:30. During my first couple of weeks at Prema, I was always the only volunteer in department – the other girls spent their mornings with the kindergartners or the special kids upstairs. During the last couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=204&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy and pain (icecream and rain) (July 15)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parvitra got hit in the mouth during lunch today. It broke my heart when, a few minutes after the feeding ordeal was over, I smiled at her and she tried to smile back but her eyes were all swollen from crying and her mouth was red and trembly. I picked her up, and her lips [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=202&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The good things in life (July 14)</title>
		<link>http://lessofatheory.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-good-things-in-life-july-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best parts of today are as follows: the cup of hot milk with sugar for breakfast that just starts everything off right. And seeing the melty little granules of sugar at the bottom of my cup is so much better than Folgers. Lying on the department floor beside Mani. He just looked so peaceful, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=200&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mani&#8217;s cot! (July 13)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized today that Logu is Parvitra’s grandmother – hence her arrival soon after Parvitra and the gentle way she cares for her. I saw Parvitra with her mom today, Sumathy with her aunt, and Praveen and Naga with their mom walking back toward Prema through Gerugambakkam. Later, Praveen found me and proudly told me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=198&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sundays, henna, samosas (July 12)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a wonderful day…a Sunday in all respects (minus going to church). After waking up at 6:00am to see Bryley off for her two months of traveling, we all went back to sleep for several hours. I woke first and spent the morning and most of the afternoon praying, learning, discovering, writing, and reading. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=196&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Necessities (July 8-10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last three days were more of the same, more of the mundane, more of the relentless, more moments of breathless joy and more of the breathtaking heart-wrenching sadness that comes and goes at the thought of leaving. I held Mani for hours, I lay on my back with Parvitra on my stomach for hours, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lessofatheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7924556&amp;post=193&amp;subd=lessofatheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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