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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: the basic choice
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 22:10:00 EST
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Nf-From: uokvax!emjej    Jan 20 21:10:00 1985

/***** uokvax:net.singles / pucc-h>!aeq /  4:54 am  Jan 15, 1985 */
It was a choice between giving nothing, and giving what I had -- which
was only tortured honesty, but at least it was giving myself.

I got up.  I wrote the letter.  I mailed it.
/* ---------- */

Huzzah! Apologies for inflicting this on the net, but I feel bizarrely
happy right now, having gotten extraordinary results from sending a letter
to an SO, and besides, mail I tried to send Jeff got bounced to me...

I'm very glad to read this. My experience (which includes contemplating
inept street-crossing while alone, halfway across the continent from
home, just after finding out that my SO had married someone else without
telling me) seems to indicate that such activities do lead to a positive
time integral of the objective function.

(Maybe the phrasing will distract folks from its merely being a restatement
of an old chestnut. :-)

					James Jones