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The Spark Is Gone

Kristina Groves | Posted 11.22.2011 | Canada Living
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Kristina Groves

Continuing to compete wouldn't be fair to those who support me or to my coaches and teammates or, most importantly, to myself. It took a healthy dose of brutal honesty for me to admit that no matter how I slice it, I always come back to the same thing: it is quite simply, sadly, happily, the end.

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Norway Is Beautiful/Norge er Skjønn

Kristina Groves | Posted 09.26.2011 | Canada
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Kristina Groves

Norwegian culture is a thread woven through the cloth of my Canadian childhood, and I am heartened, proud even, of Norway's stalwart response to the attacks. But it's easy for an idealist like me to get disillusioned by the endless problems we seem to face these days. How are we going to fix this?

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