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		<title>real word: abuse</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/03/14/sexual-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bekah hamrick martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supressing sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teens who have been sexually abused]]></category>
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By RTF Editor Bekah Hamrick Martin
She walked past me last night. I could see it in her eyes. The little girl I used to be.
Secrets. Her eyes held secrets. Things she could admit to no one, least of all herself.
I  wept. Not outwardly, but on the inside. I wept as I wondered if she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real cause: invisible children</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/03/09/joseph-kony-invisible-children-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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By Guest Writer Samuel Martin
I&#8217;m sure most of you have heard by now about the campaign to stop Joseph Kony. If you haven&#8217;t, let me give you the rundown:
Joseph Kony is a warlord in Uganda who kidnaps and brutalizes children for use in his army. The boys that is &#8212; the girls are used as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real issues: invisible chains</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/10/02/real-issues-invisible-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjhamrick</dc:creator>
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Try to imagine this: your family is utterly destitute and can barely provide for one meal a day. Because you have to help your parents provide food and clothing for all your siblings, it is impossible for you to go to school.
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A friend of your family—or even a relative—comes to your father, and offers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real issue: dating abuse</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/07/06/real-issue-dating-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/07/06/real-issue-dating-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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Red Lights of an Unhealthy Relationship
Does someone you care about?

Put you down? Criticize you?
Get extremely jealous or possessive?
Constantly check up on you?
Tell you how to dress? What to think? What to say?
Try to control what you do and who you see?
Make you feel nervous (like you are walking on eggshells)?
Threaten to hurt you physically (push, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real advice: my family is messed up</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/07/03/real-advice-8/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/07/03/real-advice-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cutting]]></category>
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I am 15 years old. My dad is strange, to say the least. He&#8217;s sexually hurt others. He has had a ankle bracelet on for a while and just recently had it removed. My mother divorced him and we live with her.
The problem is that my mom works really long hours. I babysit my siblings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Issue: Rihanna</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/03/09/real-issue-rihanna/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/03/09/real-issue-rihanna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T. Suzanne Eller]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realteenfaith.com/?p=1069</guid>
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She&#8217;s an icon, just barely out of her teens. He&#8217;s an icon, still in his teens. All those who meet the couple say they are charming, intelligent, gracious.
What went wrong? And why are they back together?
Suzie, that&#8217;s love. They are back together because they love and need each other.
No, it&#8217;s really not. Because love is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Story: Where is Nichole now?</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2007/08/29/real-story-where-is-nichole-now/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2007/08/29/real-story-where-is-nichole-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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Real Teens, Real Stories, Real Life was my first book, published in 2002. I met so many teens as I wrote this book. Many of their stories were powerful. One of those most amazing and difficult story was written by a teen named Nichole.
In her story, on page 69, titled &#8220;A Place to Call Home&#8221;, she shared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Devo: City of Warm Rain</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2007/08/28/real-devo-city-of-warm-rain/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2007/08/28/real-devo-city-of-warm-rain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lydia Rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>

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City of Warm Rain
by Lydia Rule
This story is dedicated to children across the world who know or have known the torments of an abuser.
The rain is falling, falling from the dark night sky. Each one slaps my face with its frigid presence. Like prisms, the raindrops shatter on the ground beside me.
My skin is a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real Advice: My boyfriend hits me</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2007/06/27/real-advice-my-boyfriend-hits-me/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2007/06/27/real-advice-my-boyfriend-hits-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my boyfriend, but he hits me and says cruel things when he is angry. Last night we were walking in a dark parking lot and he pushed me and called me a (derogatory term) just because I didn&#8217;t agree with something he said. He has his good moments and that&#8217;s when I realize how much [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real Story: Looking for a Father</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2006/06/13/real-story/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2006/06/13/real-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a Father by Ashley P., Guest Writer 
By the time I was three my parents were divorced and my dad was already remarried. It&#8217;s hard when your parents separate, but harder when your three and one of them tells you that it&#8217;s all your fault.
Growing up, I wanted what everyone else seemed to have. [...]]]></description>
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