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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: return of the yuppie
Message-ID: <1963@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:06:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 03:06:51 1985
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> >ken perlow:
> >
> >Ron, I'm glad you're happy--there's so little happiness anywhere
> >these days.  Just don't ram your definition of happiness down my
> >throat, like the fundamentalist religionoids want to.  I'm *NOT*
> >going to grow up, and *YOU* can't make me!
> 
> wow, that surprised me coming from you ken.  i read this and said
> "gheez, was i ramming my def. down his throat??"  i went back and
> re-read my original article.  all i did was defend MY lifestyle,
> not ONCE did i say "and you should try it", or "this might be good
> for you" or anything like that.  i just said "this is good for a lot of people,
> so don't put us down for living this way."  i don't think i was
> ramming at all, i was simply defending.  if i came off like i was
> saying "this is the way you should live" i apologize, but *i* didn't
> get that idea at all when re-reading my letter.

And I wasn't telling you to live my lifestyle either, but to live your own,
rather than the definitions handed to you by television, your parents, your
siblings, etc. "if i came off like i was
saying "this is the way you should live" i apologize, but *i* didn't
get that idea at all when re-reading my letter."
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