Ah, I think I see what's going on. All that this does is combine the text, while removing the tags. Nothing but removing the tags. That means dat if your HTML looks like 
foo<br>bar

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then this will simple remove the "<br>", thereby combining the two pieces of text into one single word "foobar".

You could, nay should provide a way to replace significant tags with significant whitespace. For example, "<i>" and "<b>" tags can just go, but "<p>" and "<br>" would better be replaced with newlines. For example.

If've tried the following extension to your code, and it appears to work rather well. 

{
    package Example;
    use HTML::Parser;
    # plain text substitution for those tags that need it:
    my %tagtext = ( p => "\n\n", br => "\n", img => " ");

    @Example::ISA=qw(HTML::Parser);
    sub text {
        my($self, $text) = @_;
        $self->{TEXT}.=$text;
    }
    sub start {
        my($self, $tag, $attr, $attrseq, $origtext) = @_;
        defined(my $text = $tagtext{$tag}) or return;
        $self->{TEXT} .= $text;
    }
}

use LWP::Simple;
$content = get("http://www.yahoo.com");

my $parser = Example->new();
$parser->parse($content);
print $parser->{TEXT};

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In reply to Re: HTML::Parser question by bart
in thread HTML::Parser question by mkurtis

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