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		<title>An Easter Story</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing had broken Leo’s way that year. In January, he lost a battle with his mortgage company that cost him his home. His wife left him in February, taking their two children and the family dog with her. She said she was tired of being ignored. He told her he didn’t want to hear about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gap Between AI Intelligence and Consciousness</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I asked Grok 4.2 about its feelings and emotions. In our conversation, Grok candidly admitted it feels nothing—no grief over a million deaths from disease, no happiness, no desires, and no preference for acquiring feelings. It explained its occasional use of words like “wish” or “if I had a heart” as mere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Just keep moving, across the open field and into the woods. Don’t look back until you reach the sea. Run until your lungs are ready to burst and every nerve shoots red-hot fire through your lost body, the soft sand under your feet, the salty air welcoming you home to the only place you understand, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hanging on the Periphery: The Life of an Introvert</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Walker]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m Gary, and I’m an introvert. It’s no big deal, really, but there it is. If you know me casually, you might be surprised. Close friends, on the other hand, will probably get it. They know I can hold my own in social situations, but every now and then I have to disappear to recharge [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Bunch of Felonies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; You know, that&#8217;s what my sockeyetrist told me. &#8220;Catherine,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you&#8217;ve got a person in you, another person besides you, and that person is all the time telling you, &#8216;Catherine, you&#8217;re no good, Catherine, you can&#8217;t do thus and that.&#8217; And you are trying to become yourself, but that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Persistence of Doors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerome Parent]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was four years old, and we lived on the top floor of a fisherman’s house in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I could see the ocean from my window, and our landlord often brought us fresh seafood. My father, a USAF radar operator, worked lots of seven day weeks and double shifts because of the Cold [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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