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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: guilt and SO's
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 06:13:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 06:13:09 1984
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Mike Samuels posted a flame (which didn't get to this site, but which Clyde
Hoover quoted) in which he suggested I think before I act, rather than
rationalizing my actions with the idea that I could act for forgiveness on
Sunday.  I thank Clyde for coming to my defense.  In my own defense, I would
say 1) I DO think (or try to) before I act -- note that the situation I felt
so guilty about happened 14 years ago (as I said), when I was a mere boy of 15
-- and you can't expect a 15-year-old only child of divorced parents to know
how to handle a relationship flawlessly; 2) I don't have to wait till Sunday
to obtain forgiveness if I do goof now, at almost 29.

Anyway, nowadays I hope I won't have to ask a lot of forgiveness, since I've
learned a lot (not that I don't have a lot more to learn) about living and
loving in those 14 years.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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"...I've got to be where my spirit can run free..."