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		<title>Being Proud of Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[College Bound!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Randie
Age: 17
City and State: Cocoa, FL
What motivated you to get your GED? Not being able to be proud of myself for something. I&#8217;ve realized that I&#8217;ve gone through so much in my life, and an education is one thing I&#8217;ve never accomplished. Being out of school is really getting me nowhere. With a GED, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Is Stopping Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Gissel
Age: 24
City and State: New York, NY
What motivated you to get your GED? It&#8217;s hard to get a job, but I&#8217;m young and nothing&#8217;s stoping me. I want to do it for myself, so I can finally be happy again.
How have your friends and family helped you? They haven&#8217;t, but I know I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happily Ever After</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/03/15/happily-ever-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Destiny
Age: 17
City and State: Tulsa, OK
What motivated you to get your GED? I realized when I first dropped out of school that I used to like it. I don&#8217;t really like it now, though. However, I want to go back for my family. They really motivate me, and I love them.
How have your friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Kicked Out Woke Me Up</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/03/08/getting-kicked-out-woke-me-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[College Bound!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Kelsey
Age: 17
City and State: Hawaii
What motivated you to get your GED? Getting kicked out of school really woke me up. I realized that getting an education is the best thing for me to do so that I can support my brother, sister, and grandma. We&#8217;re the only people we have for eachother. I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Dreamt of Being Successful</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/03/08/i-dreamt-of-being-successful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[After the GED...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Bound!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future Nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Chimanga
Age: 35
City and State: Los Angeles, CA
What motivated you to get your GED? I was 17 years old, living in Los Angeles, and at the time I was hanging &#8220;with the homies&#8221; and doing nothing. Having always being an avid reader, I read some autobiographies of successful people and always dreamt of being one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stronger and Wiser</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/03/08/stronger-and-wiser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Sheruk
Age: 18
City and State: Ramallah, Palestine
What motivated you to get your GED? The people around me motivated me. Everyone around me was either in college, going to school, or had a good job. I never thought I would need my diploma/GED to have a future. I got married at a young age and told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting My Life on Track</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/02/16/getting-my-life-on-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fear of Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida GED]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GED Students]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Anthony
Age: 21
City and State: Orlando, Florida
What motivated you to get your GED? My motivation comes from my girlfriend, Jacqueline. We&#8217;ve had a long distance relationship for about a year now. She has been doing all she can to get me to California to live with her, but money is always a problem. I&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes You Gotta Go Through the Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/02/15/sometimes-you-gotta-go-through-the-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/02/15/sometimes-you-gotta-go-through-the-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[College Bound!]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Getting a Better Job]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Bionca
City and State: Kannapolis, NC
What motivated you to get your GED? I realized that I want to prove everyone wrong who has put me down in my life. I want to prove that I&#8217;m smart, bright, and capable of getting my GED.
How have your friends and family helped you? My mother and my niece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You!</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/02/11/thank-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/02/11/thank-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[After the GED...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Bound!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Ty
I am 37 years old, and I just passed my GED test the first time I took it. I knew it wouldn’t be easy; it’s been almost 20 years since I didn’t graduate. I purchased access to passged.com and studied for about 2 months. This system WORKS.
Throughout my career as an adult, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to College Quickly</title>
		<link>http://www.passged.com/stories/2010/02/05/getting-to-college-quickly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelormsby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[After the GED...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Bound!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Hannah
Age: 17
City and State: Oklahoma
What motivated you to get your GED? I have always been on the more advanced side as far as students go. Throughout elementary school I was placed in accelerated programs. Instead of doing sixth grade, my parents chose to pull me out and opt for homeschooling, placing me a year [...]]]></description>
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