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		<title>Real Devo: life isn&#8217;t a fairytale</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/02/08/real-devo-life-isnt-a-fairytale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abbie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kalli Simmerman]]></category>
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By Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman

Watching  all of those Disney movies while growing up can really give a girl  misconceptions. I don&#8217;t know about anyone else but a guy never tracked  me down and asked me to marry him just because I had left my  shoe at his house. Nor did I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hark! The month of love and awkwardness!</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/02/01/hark-the-month-of-love-and-awkwardness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abbie</dc:creator>
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By RTF Editor Abbie Miller
As soon as I walked into the youth room, I knew.
There was a certain tension in the air. Deep lines creased the foreheads and lips of our leaders. The youth pastor was pacing like a caged, nervous, blushing animal. When we all sat down, we realized we were going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>introducing our newest team member: zoey</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/01/04/introducing-our-newest-team-member-zoey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[considering suicide]]></category>
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By RTF Editor Bekah Hamrick Martin
Some of you know my story.
Shame.
Loss.
Depression.
Worthlessness.

These are some of the words that haunted me on the darkest nights.
I heard the lie over and over again as a teen that life wasn’t worth living. That things would never be different. That nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Would. Ever. Get. Better.
I don’t know where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real issue: cyber bullying</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/10/13/real-issue-cyber-bullying/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/10/13/real-issue-cyber-bullying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abbie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
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Anyone who&#8217;s ever experienced bullying via the internet knows it can go from &#8220;joking&#8221; to serious within minutes. This month, we&#8217;ll be hearing and reading some real-life stories from people who have experienced cyber-bullying firsthand.
What do you think about it? Do you know anyone who&#8217;s been victimized by it? Have you been victimized by it? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real lyrics: return to love</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/30/real-lyrics-return-to-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[real advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teens making a difference]]></category>
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By Guest Writer Rebecca Good
Love, my Darling, what are you now?
Look what you&#8217;ve become somehow.
I don&#8217;t like your new semblance &#8211;
Why don&#8217;t you keep your right stance?

Stop letting others change you,
Stand up for yourself and be true.
Go back to how you&#8217;ve first begun &#8211;
Don&#8217;t be scared, and please don&#8217;t run.
Follow me, Love, and don&#8217;t turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real story: i was stunned.</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/17/real-story-u-turns/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/17/real-story-u-turns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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By Guest Writer Sarah G.
“Mom, I don’t feel good. I’m going to bed. Wake me up for dinner, please.”
That statement, I don’t feel good, was being said way too often in my house – every day after school.
When I went to sleep it was three in the afternoon, on Friday March 4, 2011. My mom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real song: beautiful letdown</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/10/real-song-beautiful-letdown/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/10/real-song-beautiful-letdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When change is all around us, we can be assured that even change is a beautiful letdown.
Let this song by Switchfoot encourage you today.

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		<title>real devo: good out of bad?</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/09/real-devo-good-out-of-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/09/real-devo-good-out-of-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shannon Meiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BJ Hamrick]]></category>
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By RTF Staff Writer Shannon Meiers
I’ve never been a huge fan of change.
Maybe because when I was little, it seemed that change only brought bad things. Change brought stressful jobs to my dad. Change moved me away from my best friends. Change was a little bit scary. And change hurt.
Then I grew up (not necessarily [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>real story: out with the old</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/03/real-story-out-with-the-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derek Hanisch]]></category>
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By RTF Contributor Derek Hanisch
I looked in the mirror and smiled.  With a little imagination I looked as if I belonged at Hogwarts.
I must say, wearing my black graduation gown certainly was a fantasy come true.  After many, many long hours of work my college career was coming to an end.
With graduation my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>real advice: worshipping at the altar of Ramen</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/07/25/real-advice-worshipping-at-the-altar-of-ramen/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/07/25/real-advice-worshipping-at-the-altar-of-ramen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>halee matthews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abbie Miller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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by Editor Abbie Miller
A naïve 2 years ago, I wrote the following after having gotten my first real job:
 “I’m really relieved. I was beginning to think I would be spending the next 2 to 4 years as a completely broke college student, worshiping morning, noon and night at the altar of Ramen, and clothing [...]]]></description>
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