Combine text layers but keep text editable?  OR  A way to export text as a paragraph in InDesign into Photoshop

Hoping to achieve one of these goals, either option is equally fine:
Option 1) find a way to merge text layers but keep the text editable in Photoshop.
Option 2) find a way in InDesign to group and collapse text so that it lands on one layer or one text paragraph that could be selected together.  So that when I export to EPS and then PSD the text is not sliced up on various layers but is combined into one editable text layer.
Why?  I'm saving out from InDesign and for whatever reason the text is fragmented across many objects/layers/ whatever you want to call it.  When using the export feature from InDesign these bits of text are then saved out as separate layers when you export to EPS.  Using Illustrator with the EPS files is no help either. 
The best way I can describe it is like in these InDesign document there are web page slices being used and various bits of the text are landing on various slices which in turn befuddles the export function that is valiantly trying to maintain these 'slices' of text by fragmenting letters, words, or characters across many 'slices' into many layers.
Here's what the document looks like when I go from InDesign> export> EPS>  then open in Illustrator and export to PSD.
What I want is all of those individual text layers to be one text layer, still editable, in Photoshop. 

http://www.automatication.com/index.php?id=13
Bob

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