From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!reid Newsgroups: net.singles Title: Re: re: silly stories Article-I.D.: uwvax.643 Posted: Mon Oct 25 19:49:02 1982 Received: Wed Oct 27 06:02:20 1982 References: cwruecmp.201 I was not shocked by "ex-boyfriend" since I noticed that "fiance" was used instead of "fiancee", and the reference to friends "most of which were men," which would make very little sense if the article were written by a male. By the time I had gotten to any reference to "boyfriend", I was already quite comfortable with the sex of the author (nothing intended...) Glenn Reid