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		<title>Donate before it&#8217;s too late</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We only have 12 days left to raise funds for &#8220;You and Me and the Fruit Trees.&#8221; Millions of children are affected by this endemic and many adults struggle with the ongoing trauma of CSA. Child sexual abuse is a public health issue that impacts not only individuals, but whole communities and society at large. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving In &amp; Letting Go&#8230;How to Open Yourself Up to Possibilities in Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the importance of some of the crap we humans have to endure and survive lately. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. People who play by the rules. People who say please and thank you. People that just do good and are good. I mean, honestly, don&#8217;t we all find it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring Child Abuse Prevention Day</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2011/11/honoring-child-abuse-prevention-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Day we are asking our supporters to make a donation to the film. As many of you know we are currently in the production phase of a compelling documentary &#8220;You and Me and the Fruit Trees,&#8221; a character driven documentary that interweaves compelling stories of child sexual abuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State turns their back on child sexual abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revelations of the 10 year cover- up of child sexual abuse by an assistant football coach at Penn State University has shocked and appalled people everywhere, but the sad truth is that such cases of total inaction by those in a position to help are all too common.  Joe Paterno, one of the most admired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film: Stories of healing and the movement to end child sexual abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays are around the corner and buying presents for friends can be fun, but also nerve wracking. This holiday season our team is asking supporters to make a gift donation in the name of a family member or friend. Give the gift of awareness, prevention and healing surrounding child sexual abuse. We are asking supporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Child Abuse Prevention Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2011/10/national-child-abuse-prevention-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October is a big month for us! Producer/Director Tracey Quezada will be presenting the “Work in Progress” at the Humanist Hall on October 20th at 7:00pm. So come out and show your support. Our partner TAALK, will interview Tracey for part of a 24 hour internet radio show recognizing child abuse prevention day November 19th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a New Day</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2011/09/its-a-new-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robingrayreed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks 18 years since I first experienced the unspeakable horror that is sexual violence. I was 9 years old. Two-thirds of my life have now passed between that day and today, and this morning I wrote the following in my journal, ending in a letter to myself at age 9 from myself at age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You and the social movement to end child sexual abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know I&#8217;m producing a film that shares stories of healing and the people behind the social movement to end child sexual abuse. I have received a whole lot of support from the community. We have presented community screenings and are scheduling more from the Bay Area to Alaska. Recently Children&#8217;s Alliance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting My Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joann shelton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confronting My Mother by Joann Shelton (Angela Shelton&#8217;s mother) Love of back roads prompted a fall drive with my Mom yesterday along the French Broad River from Flat Creek, North Carolina through Madison County to Greenville, Tennessee.  She seemed to really enjoy the different terrains, telling the same stories about places, eating out, sometimes digging [...]]]></description>
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