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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>
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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>finding God in the dark</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/03/07/finding-god-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJ Hamrick]]></category>
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By RTF Editor Bekah Hamrick Martin
Not now. Not again.
I thought this pain was in my rear view mirror… but suddenly it’s crashed through the windshield.
That’s agony. It will sneak up on you. Then it will stop you in your tracks.
Been there?
All it takes is seeing that one person… from that one time… and that one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/01/04/introducing-our-newest-team-member-zoey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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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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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>real song: beautiful letdown</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/10/real-song-beautiful-letdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/03/real-story-out-with-the-old/#comments</comments>
		<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 issues: invisible chains</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/10/02/real-issues-invisible-chains/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/10/02/real-issues-invisible-chains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjhamrick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realteenfaith.com/?p=1569</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real Issue: Self Respect</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/02/27/real-issue-self-respect/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/02/27/real-issue-self-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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by BJ Hamrick, RTF Staff Writer

To be honest, I’m probably the last person who should write an article about self-respect. After all, I’m the girl who permed her hair, dyed her skin, and over-waxed her eyebrows… all in hopes she’d like herself when she was done. (Unfortunately, it’s hard to like yourself when your skin [...]]]></description>
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