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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Review : NBC's "Second Thoughts on Being Single" Documentary?
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 13:23:40 EST
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I too had it on the tube while catching up on old issues of CACM.  I
am in the age group discussed, but have been married for 11 years
(no kids) and was amazed by what was portrayed as the real world. 
This certainly wouldn't be the first time I was out of touch with
the real world, but I find it very hard to believe that the majority
of single people people my age spend their lives.  I suspect that
this will stimulate some discussion in the net, and I'd be curious
to know whether there is any truth at all in the image of being
single portrayed.  The one thing that struck me as insightful
(something that made sense but I hadn't thought about it) was the
skewing of the ration of single men to single women by age groups
due to the tendancy for older me to marry younger women.

My overwhelming reaction was that if this is what being single is
all about these days (which I highly doubt it is), you can keep it!

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	Warren Montgomery
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