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        <title>Weekend America - Open Letters to Entities Unlikely to Respond</title>
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        <copyright>Copyright 2015 American Public Media</copyright>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter to a Thief]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Just two months ago, someone broke into Weekend America producer Angela Kim's apartment while she was away. Everything was taken, including her computer and two backup hard drives. Along with many possessions, six years of digital memories are suddenly gone. Angela wonders how she can regain what was lost.]]></description>                                  
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter to Cadbury Cr&egrave;me Eggs]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Judy Minor noticed something disturbing this year. Each year the Cadbury Cr&egrave;me Egg starts showing up on grocery store shelves earlier and earlier. That prompted her to write this letter. It's part of our series: Open Letters to People and Entities Who are Unlikely to Respond.]]></description>                                  
            
                        <link>http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/04/07/open_letter_to_cadbury_cregraveme_eggs</link>
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter to Host Family]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Studying abroad is a way to learn about a new culture and meet new people. And of course, you can write to those back home about your adventures. Amy O'Leary ended up writing a letter, after her study abroad experience, to her host family.]]></description>                                  
            
                        <link>http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/03/open_letter_to_host_family</link>
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter to Buick Park Avenue Ultra]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Usually when you write a letter, the recipient writes back. But sometimes, they just can't. From time to time we air open letters to people and entities who are unlikely to respond. It's part of our ongoing series with McSweeney's online magazine. Classic car owner Jeanne Shoemaker has something she needs to say to her 80-year-old parents' new Buick Park Avenue Ultra.]]></description>                                  
            
                        <link>http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/02/17/open_letter_to_buick_park_avenue_ultra</link>
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter to Carpet]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Usually when you write a letter, the recipient writes back. But sometimes, they just can't. From time to time we air open letters to people and entities who are unlikely to respond.  It's part of our ongoing series with McSweeney's online magazine. Writer Colin Joyce took some time out of ripping carpets out of his new home to send along this correspondence.]]></description>                                  
            
                        <link>http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/02/10/open_letter_to_carpet</link>
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Lifetime Television]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lucy Baker has whiled away way too much time--not reading or taking photographs--but watching Lifetime Television. She blames a lot of time wasted on the TV channel. We hear a letter she has written about it.]]></description>                                  
            
                        <link>http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/01/27/an_open_letter_to_lifetime_television</link>
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Is Rudolph suffering from an esteem problem? How else can you explain how easily he gave in to Santa's request to guide the sleigh after being slighted for so many years? Santa was nice on that one foggy Christmas Eve, but Rudolph, is he really your friend? In an "Open Letter to People and Entities Unlikely to Respond," A.F. Passafiume pleads with Rudolph to reconsider his unhealthy relationship with Mr. Claus.]]></description>                                  
            
                        <link>http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/12/23/open_letter</link>
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open Letter]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[You know the drill. You order something from a catalog to give as a gift, the present comes in the mail, and you move on. But the thing is, it's hard to move on, because for years afterward the catalog keeps on coming. This is what happened between Erik Bowie, and the mail order meat company, Omaha Steaks.]]></description>                                  
            
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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