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	<name>Harley</name>
	<age>22 months</age>
	<color>platinum and honey blonde</color>
	<fav-food>tacos</fav-food>
	<fav-toy>blue stuffed octapus</fav-toy>
	<fav-activity>going for a walk</fav-activity>
	<fav-weather>snow</fav-weather>
	<tricks>sit, laydown, stay, rollover, spin, stand on rear legs, balance treat on nose, shake off, shake hands, crawl</tricks>
	<description>I have had dogs all my life. After going to college in New York City for four years (where it was obviously impossible to keep a dog) I love having Harley around.  He is one of my favorite things. Harley is a sweet little dog. He is very intelligent and always ready to learn new tricks. He's a hunter at heart and tracks scents. Squirrels are his favorite prey. He has a vocabulary of a couple hundred words and phrases. He is famous for going into "psycho dog mode" when he gets excited where he runs laps around the room or yard as fast as he can for a few minutes straight. He has a favorite chair in the study, a red and white arm chair from the 70's. He is appropriately named after Harley Davidson--full of vitality, energy, and character. </description>
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    </thing>
    <thing>
	<name>Subaru Impreza WRX</name>
	<age>6 months</age>
	<color>rally blue</color>
	<hp>255 hp</hp>
	<engine>2.0 litre turbo charged, horizontally opposed boxer</engine>
	<exhaust>Turbo XS</exhaust>
	<wheels>Rota Sub Zero gold</wheels>
	<suspension>Tein Flex and Electronic Dampening Force Controller</suspension>
	<other-mods>short-throw shifter, titanium shift knob, upgraded speakers and subwoofer, blow off valve, oil catch can, spoiler, Blitz Full Auto Turbo Timer</other-mods>
	<description>I spend a minimum of six hours driving every week and it is often the case that I spend up to fifteen hours a week in the car. Having said that I can beyond a doubt say that this car is one of my favorite things. This is the best car I have ever driven--words are not enough to describe, you just have to drive it yourself. Even stock this car is amazing. It grips the road and hugs curves. You feel every detail in the road surface; yet the ride is smooth. And what a beautiful color. The gold wheels and details perfectly compliment and contrast with the deep blue. This is a performance automobile.</description>
	<image1>wrx.jpg</image1>
	<image2>wrxmud.jpg</image2>
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    </thing>
    <thing>
	<name>Alienware Desktop Computer</name>
	<age>10 months</age>
	<color>silver</color>
	<processing>Pentium 4 2.0 GHz</processing>
	<graphics>NVIDIA GeForce4 TI4400</graphics>
	<harddrive>37 GB</harddrive>
	<description>Being a web design major and computer game junkie, I spend at least twenty hours of every week (not including at work or school--add another 55 hours for these!) using the computer.  I owned a 1998 Toshiba Satellite laptop for the last four years. Many a frustrated night was spent trying to get PhotoShop to even open so I could complete a web design assignment that was due the next day. Since I got my Alienware computer, I have never found something I wanted to do that it couldn't handle, which makes it one of my favorite things.</description>
	<image>computer.jpg</image>
	<light-border>lalienborder.gif</light-border>
	<dark-border>dalienborder.gif</dark-border>
    </thing>
</favorites>