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From: beth@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: POSSLQ
Message-ID: <1958@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Aug-83 15:11:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 18 15:11:41 1983
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For a recent census, the US Census Bureau decided they needed a word to
describe Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. POSS-ul-que.
It does connote a stronger relationship than necessarily intended.  I, as
a female, could have a male apartment mate who was not my boyfriend. I
believe that in the census, my apartment mate would be counted as a posslq.
Is that how they counted them?  I wouldn't think of him as my posslq because
that implies at least great friend and probably lover.
					Beth Katz