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	<itunes:summary>Are you suffering from loss? Feeling alone? Looking for hope? Join Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley, bereaved parent/sibling on their weekly Open to Hope Internet radio show. The Horsleys are founders of Opentohope.com and international experts on finding hope after loss. Their personal journey and the stories of their guests will inspire you and motivate you to again embrace the life that you have been given.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Loss of a Twin has Huge Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Susan Heim, a writer for Chicken Soup For The Soul, asked me to write an article for a twin publication on bereavement geared to the parents of twins. At first it seemed unsuitable for twins to hear about the possibility of an untimely death of their twin. This column appeared in Triplets, Moms and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing the Experience of being a &#8216;Twinless Twin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The emotions I felt were mirrored in other twinless twins I met.  Just listening, for the first time, to other twins tell their story of loss and what it meant for them to lose their twin had an impact I will never forget. It was a huge gift in my life. It has been my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Without My Twin: Reflections On A Road Traveled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Pountney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new twin joined our twinloss Yahoo group. He has recently lost his twin. I related to his words about how we draw strength from our connection to our twin. The intrinsic nature of twin connectedness was made clearer for me. It is this connection or bond that when severed, brought in the feelings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Twin Honor the Sister Who Died?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Pountney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gladys writes in: I just lost my twin sister three months ago to something we now know as Long QT syndrome. She was perfectly healthy and woke to check on her crying baby one morning and fell unconscious and never gained consciousness again. Our 30th birthday is this Sunday and I am wanting to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: The Secret Life of Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Pountney &#8211; Multiple loss themes run concurrently throughout the movie The Secret Life Of Bees, based on Sue Monk Kidd&#8217;s novel, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Dakota Fanning plays Lily, a guarded fourteen-year old, grief-stricken over the death of a mother she hardly remembers. A tortured soul, Lily&#8217;s father (Paul Bettany) takes his pain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What It&#8217;s Like to Lose a Twin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Pountney &#8212; I was taken captive by life and death at the age of twenty-one. My identical twin sister Paula and I faced life together for twenty-one years. We never imagined life without the other. As twins, we had an unspoken pact to care for one another. When she died suddenly in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twins: Connected in Life and Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Pountney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Pountney As a twin myself, the death of actor and identical twin Jon Hager this month was especially fascinating. Jon and Jim Hager co-starred in the old TV show, &#8220;Hee-Haw,&#8221; back in the 1970s. Jim died of a heart attack last year at just 66 years of age; Jon died at 67 on [...]]]></description>
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