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  <name><![CDATA[Doni Tamblyn]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Born in the San Francisco Bay area, by a strange twist of fate I spent part of my childhood living in a log house on a cattle ranch in the Canadian Cascades. There I spent my formative years slinging hay and attending a one-room school with neighboring kids whose idea of a &quot;spirited debate&quot; was a snowball with a rock in it. It was during this time that I learned some very useful lessons, like how much weight a 50-pound kid can carry (about 35 lb, if you drag it part of the way); mammals that can be dominated and mammals that can't (dogs and bulls yes, cats and bears sometimes, brothers and sisters seldom); 3) what it means if the tip of your nose turns white (it's frozen, and you need to thaw it at once or it might drop off). 

As soon as I graduated high school, I beat cheeks back to the nearest major city I could find (Vancouver BC), and continued to live in urban centers until I got married in 2005 and moved to the Jersey shore. Right now I'm listening to birds. Weird sound... VAGUELY familiar.... 

Happy times: Studying art in the 70s; performing cabaret in the 80s; arranging and singing a cappella in the 90s; discovering PHILADELPHIA in 2001 (do NOT tell anyone how cool it is -- we don't want to be another Seattle, thank you); the Summer of Love in 2003 (none of your business, but thank you for asking); spending 10 months in Shanghai with my husband in 2005.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>San Mateo CA</hometown>  <born_at>10/01/1952</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Laugh And Learn]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.80</average_rating>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Big Book of Humorous Training Games (Big Book of Business Games Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Doni Tamblyn]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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