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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: birthcontrol
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 13:48:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 13:48:17 1985
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> > Well, people seem to want to be "swept away", to be irresponsible--even, in
> > the women's case, to themselves.
> 
> Dead on! I recently have gotten back together with an ex (we were separated
> by circumstance and a mutual need to grow up). What I felt for her, and do
> feel for her, is very strong, and though she is on the pill, we are
> holding off on sex for a while. Though both of us find it (at times
> extremely) difficult, we have not gotten "swept away."
> 
> "Swept away" is for people who don't want to acknowledge that they have
> acted irresponsibly. If a lady gets pregnant because I got "swept away," it
> doesn't change the fact that irresponsibility has harmed both our lives.
> The fetus doesn't understand about "swept away."

Are you sure?  Since fetuses don't think, maybe the only thing they
really "understand" is "swept away."

Of course, you'll never understand anything if you're not conceived!
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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