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		<description><![CDATA[It's the old saying: "tragedy plus time equals comedy." It was ten years later. And it was hard to feel sorry for myself when so many good things came out of the sacrifice. For one, I was a stronger and more interesting person. For two, I won the Rhodes scholarship almost solely on the strength of the trip. (My grades weren't that great.) If I had written the book right after my return as I tried and failed to do, there probably would have been much more "feel sorry for me" to it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/matt-polly-interview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my memoir took shape, a more troubled and prickly young man emerged than I ever realized. However, when I saw this flawed character on the page, it didn't look as bad as I had always feared. Instead, I realized many heroes have edgy, even repugnant character flaws. Homer's Ulysses was impulsive. Hamlet was self-involved. Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict. And despite these flaws, or perhaps because of them, readers identify with the hero. So why shouldn't the hero of my memoir also be flawed? This acceptance of my faults liberated me from the exhausting work of pretending I'm perfect. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/flawed-heroes-and-mechanical-body-parts-shaolin-memoir-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real world might ruin my fantasies. Finally curiosity won. I jumped in to "American Shaolin" and kept turning pages to the end. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/shaolin-kungfu-princeto/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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