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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Relationships:  do ANY of them work?
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 00:46:52 EST
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> >I've been sitting back and reading this newsgroup for some time now,
> >rarely posting anything because I've got little to say.  Two things
> >strike me as frightening, though:  the level of animosity and bitterness
> >displayed by contributors regarding the opposite sex; and the fact that
> >many of the correspondents to this newsgroup seem to be going through
> >	a) divorce;
> >	b) breakup in a close relationship;
> >	c) being terminally lonely.

Consider the audience.  First of all, people tune in to net.singles when
things get rough in a relationship or things get lonely for want of one.
Second, people who are involved in a serious relationship or marriage may
not consider themselves "single" and may feel they don't belong in the
group or may not feel that they would have anything to contribute.  I
suppose I'm an exception to the net.singles readership in being solidly
un-single--I follow it because I've been once completely round the single/
married/divorced wheel and have a lot of empathy for the things that happen
along the way.

> ... My parents, for example, are working on #30...

Geez, Chuq, that upstages most of Hollywood!  I'm only on #2 and I found it
trying.:-)
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Keep your day job 'til your night job pays.