tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44448697460686616932024-03-12T19:23:08.992-07:00CofA FictionSome stories are best told as fiction, I've learned, after covering clergy sex abuse cases in the Catholic Church for years at CofA Blog. If there are similarities to real events in these tales, it is due to repeated patterns in The Crimes of the Pedophile Priests. (Blog by Kay Ebeling)Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-79541256741124853322015-06-05T05:12:00.001-07:002015-06-05T08:54:30.965-07:00The Pope and I – 1<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When I heard
Rick Santorum’s announcement on Climate Change, for the Pope to "leave science to the scientists," I went right to Facebook to set the world straight. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The Pope was working on a
masters in chemistry when he made a career change.” I wrote and posted an article "Six Things you Should Know About the New Pope" from a few years back.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On the other side of the globe at the exact same time at the Vatican, a monsignor is briefing el papa on the entire
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He chuckles, “I taught graduate seminars-” <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Smiling the
monsignor says, “You'll be surprised to know who was the first to make the
point on social media.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He hands the
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Again? City of
Angels, that woman?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">"Many American journalists are misreporting that you actually have a master's degree."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since his first
days in office, Ebeling in Los Angeles had been at the top of his daily stack
of intelligence, because her blog had forced information out about the pedophile
priests back in 2007-8, even when the previous Pope thought his staff had a
vice grip on release of information. At first Vatican staff watched her as a
potential threat, then they realized it was actually the internet that took
control of the story out of their hands, Ebeling was just one of the first to
figure out how to use it. </span></b></div>
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been right. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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wanted to make a statement about Santorum, el papa chucked again, and the
meeting was over. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He handed the
tablet back to the monsignor, saying, “Email that Ebeling link to me.” <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then got on his own laptop and within a few seconds pulled <a href="http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2013/12/our-left-wing-pope-is-just-creation-of_8702.html">this story up</a> and <a href="http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2014/03/pope-calls-church-victim-and-those.html">this story as well</a>, and for a moment, had a hard time breathing. </span></b><br />
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<a href="http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2013/12/our-left-wing-pope-is-just-creation-of_8702.html">Our Left Wing Pope Is Just a Creation of Fox News</a></h3>
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It woke me up, this idea, probably many others have had it already but isn't it suspicious that our new left wing pope is being guided through the media by a Fox News trollop*? This pic </div>
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<a href="http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2014/03/pope-calls-church-victim-and-those.html">Pope left-wing slant and non-response to UN is no coincidence</a> </h3>
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">My theory: It was a deal. Francis got named Pope to derail child sex abuse charges with a Sudden Left Wing Turn in the church. He gets to steer to the left and help the poor, and the old monarchs get to keep the files secret. Just my paranoid, plot seeing brain at work as always. BUT ... </span></h5>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A woman who writes a blog about pedophile priests gets so enraged that nothing changed after twenty years of activism-</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> that
the same guys are still in power, still telling the same lies, and in a few years they'll probably have perpetrators in the clergy again- that she decides to post on her blog her plans to blow up a
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Not with weaponry, but by getting
as many people as possible to meet her in the center of the
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">They gather and all at once yell so
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>After I assaulted Cardinal Mahony
the second time on an L.A. side street a judge agreed to let me go to a halfway house for wayward women in order to avoid prison and a criminal record. B</b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">ecause I am a pedophile priest victim there were mitigating circumstances.</b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was in that East Hollywood rooming house that I had my moment of recognition. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If I commit a good enough felony, I'll get subsidized housing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to women at the shelter, upon release from prison, the state of California gives you a Section 8 rental certificate and an SSI check, the ex-cons get almost everything paid for by the
government, while here I am trying to live on a six hundred a month social
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"A convicted felon gets subsidized
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Yeah, low rent, nine hundred something a month SSI,” said Dot
the manager of the house that year. “They have to give it to ‘em 'cause w</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ho's going to hire 'em?</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">t's supposed to keep 'em from robbing again. (Snort)" </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Look at this,” said Shelly, who had been to college. She turned her tablet to me so I could read a headline about the recent release of The Pillow Case Rapist.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“He's going to live in a Martha Stewart Mansion,” Shelly said
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“Martha Stewart Mansions?” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Shelly nodded. “Back in the 1990s Stewart bought up a huge piece of property in an area north of
here, they call it Lake Los Angeles which is a joke, it's the Mojave
Desert. Right smack dab there in the
middle of nowhere she carved out side streets and
built these three and four story suburban homes, mansions, well, McMansions all of them.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dot joined in: “Nobody would buy them so now
there's about a hundred of them, empty houses, some really nice, big two
story four-five bedroom homes sitting there empty.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“They gotta have somebody live in
‘em or they get all run down, so they give the convicts Section 8 and they rent
the houses.” "McMansions, ha ha." Another trying to get my attention said, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Like she said, while we live in shelters," but I had gone into a kind of trance.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I wouldn't be in this mess, where
the only way out is to commit a felony, if it weren't for that damn Jesuit Governor Jerry Brown. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My sister and I were molested by
a Catholic priest when we were little girls in the 1950s and it messed us both up so much
that when the opportunity to file lawsuits against the Catholic Church came up in 2002, when California opened up a one-year window in the statute of limitations, neither me or my sister was functioning well enough to get to a
lawyer. Trish was out of it, on the tail end of losing her mind in San Francisco, and I was in L.A. spending a lot of
times in bars on Santa Monica Boulevard near La Cienega, then near Western, then near Hobart. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So I
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As a result I got to meet a bunch
of people who had the same experience as me, being raped by a priest when we were
little kids. They settled their lawsuits and became millionaires, and I got nothing. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So I assaulted Cardinal Mahony on the street. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There were more than six hundred of us in L.A. Beginning in 2002 we went to support
groups, cajoled each other, demonstrated outside of the Cathedral in harmony. Then in 2007 their lawsuits paid out and my new friends got settlements, but I didn't. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't worry, said the lawyers, there will be another window, and sure enough, in 2014 both houses of t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">he State Legislature passed a bill to open another window for lawsuits. Then it went to the Governor, he sat on it for days, I was all ready to refile my lawsuit and finally get out of poverty,</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And that damn Jesuit governor
refused to sign the bill. Both houses of the legislature passed it and that damn Jesuit governor refused to sign it. He sent out a press release saying he let the bill die for the sake of justice, that statutes of limitations are written for a reason
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So in 2014 I assaulted Cardinal Mahony on the street the second time. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And thanks to a benevolent judge, I landed in that shelter where I learned my Social Security pension, money I have to live on until the day I die, is so small it would not pay rent in a flea-bag hotel. </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How could everybody not see how unfair
it is to people like me, that the California plaintiffs get to collect about a million dollars each from the church after having the same exact experience as me, but I don't get a settlement, just because I got to a lawyer a few hours too late. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So now here I am in my sixties and destitute and it's the Catholic Church's fault, because I lost every job I had due to my sexual dysfunction caused by that pedophile priest when I was a kid, so of course now I have no pension to speak of. My life is a mess today because the Catholic Church enabled pedophiles. And everyone in power seems to be in collusion with them, right up to that
damn Jesuit governor who refused to sign the bill and let me file my lawsuit. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was in that Mojave rooming house that I met Rudy, a skinny grumpy old man in a wheelchair. He was expounding in the community kitchen where we all gathered for coffee:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>“I see in the news, now we all got to not insult the Muslims," said the bony little man, who resembled Mason Verger in many ways. "You can't besmirch a Muslim but that damn Obama is forcing Catholic businesses to pay for abortions.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>“What the heck is a Catholic business?” <o:p></o:p></b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The words popped out of me before I could stop them. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rudy’s face mangled into a snarl. “No Catholic business should have to provide un-Catholic things to their employees like birth control pills.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rudy got really mad and wheeled out in his
electric chair sputtering a string of swear words at me that shocked the other
ladies, but just made me laugh. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Who is he?" I asked, and found out he was in charge of Catechism
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>“At St. What's her name's, the Catholic Church over there.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>I was incredulous. “They put that cussing spitting hostile old man
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That's when I confirmed my decision, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the next step in my plan to commit a felony and get a certificate for
subsidized housing. I said it then for the first time to myself, although I probably was thinking it when I took the apartment. "I'm going to kill
the priest at the Catholic Church up the street." </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It would get the issue of pedophile priests back into the news, I justified to myself, and I’d get subsidized housing for the rest of my life. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Or maybe I’ll just kill Rudy. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>(THIS IS FICTION in case there are
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Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-4169147915861833172015-04-06T19:45:00.002-07:002015-04-07T06:56:32.213-07:00Preview, story coming shortly <i><span style="font-size: large;">Titled "An Excuse to Kill Somebody" </span></i><br />
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<i><br /></i><i>In "An Excuse to Kill Somebody" a character named Rudy looks a lot like Mason Verger in the clip below (from Hannibal 2001)</i><br />
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<i>Hopefully I'll have it finished by end of this week, or soon after. </i><br />
<i>Fiction story coming soon</i><br />
<i>-ke</i>Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-63657773390460108752014-11-29T05:20:00.000-08:002014-11-29T05:20:12.432-08:00<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;"><i>I don't seem to want
to write fiction and that makes sense, since I never read fiction. . . sigh.</i> </span>Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-59874700747943324782014-11-10T13:38:00.001-08:002014-11-10T13:38:43.524-08:00<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I am sick, will continue this blog when I feel better.</span></b></i>Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-25965520330154806182014-10-26T09:25:00.001-07:002014-10-26T09:43:08.005-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<b><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No short story here yet
as I'm swamped at work, transcribing reality TV interviews, when I really want
to write my stuff, which is so frustrating.
In one assignment last week after the star of the show blew her line about
15 times, she said, "Oh, did you want me to project more? I can do it again." The guy off camera mumbled in pain, "It's okay we got
it." They had interviewed her for 1.25
hours and got two maybe three sound bites, almost complete sentences if you
cobble them together later. Amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's this work that keeps
me from writing my stories, but one must pay the rent. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In that interview, the
model tried to explain that twerk class is exercise, and she could not find the
words. Wonder why. "Can i say butt on
television?" she asked. Having never read a paragraph in her life, she
does not know what is and is not in the dictionary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It's this work that is keeping me from finishing the first short story
until hopefully November 1, so I'm shooting for the weekend of November 1, but can’t
turn down a paid job right now so- </span></b>Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-14396930272156840302014-10-21T05:31:00.002-07:002014-10-21T05:52:06.926-07:00<b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 12.8800001144409px;">After the second time I assaulted Cardinal Mahony on the street in L.A., a judge had me live in a shelter for wayward women instead of a prison sentence. In a conversation at that East Hollywood kitchen table, I had the moment of recognition: I have a perfect excuse to kill somebody. Story coming soon.</span></b>Kay Ebelinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753284586265566961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444869746068661693.post-15039352597500944322014-10-19T06:14:00.002-07:002014-10-19T09:22:44.172-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.8800001144409px;">woke up 2 AM last night, "That's the story point!" for this new thing I'm doing a fiction piece, it's coming out fast and that AM wakeup had me laughing out loud for a really long time. Hope others feel same when they read it. . . coming soon, "An Excuse To Kill Somebody" short story fiction by me. Will be posted here in a week. . . ? </span><a href="http://cofafiction.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.8800001144409px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://cofafiction.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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