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  <name><![CDATA[Connie Arnold]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Married, with two children and three grandsons, living in North Carolina and author of two books of inspirational poetry.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conniearnold.webs.com/&quot;&gt;Visit My Website&lt;/a&gt; to read book excerpts and other poems on blog. 

Creative writing helps in dealing with the problems of life, such as my living with lupus, and these poems offer the reader moments of beauty, joy, peace, hope and love in the midst of life's difficulties.

A new children's book was recently accepted for publication and will be available in 2010.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[God, family, friends, nature, music]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Texarkana, TX</hometown>  <born_at>06/15/1952</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Beautiful Moments of Joy and Peace]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Abiding Hope and Love]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Connie Arnold]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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