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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This Friday, I'll be sleeping out in the open to benefit The Robes Project, which funds the only </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">winter shelter of its kind in our</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> local area. It provides a hot dinner, somewhere to sleep and wash, and a cooked breakfast for homeless guests every night between November and April. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">As corny as this sounds, I've always been keenly aware of the fact that I lay my head on a down pillow, on a nice mattress, under a warm duvet, in a heated home every night. I take a lot of things for granted, but this is one thing for which I'm consciously thankful every night. When I saw that Robes was asking people to sleep out in the cold to raise money for its shelter, I knew I wanted to take part.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Friday night, we'll be on the ground in the courtyard of Southwark Cathedral. I'll have a sleeping bag, warm clothes, and access to hot cocoa and coffee, which is a lot more than any homeless person gets on an average night. I want to get a glimpse of just how cold and, frankly, crappy it feels to be out there in the winter night air, and yet I appreciate that I'll still never grasp what it feels like not to know where my next meal is coming from.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Please be sure to let me see who you are so I can thank the amazing people who are contributing! Thank you so very much for your support.</span></p>
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