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From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: A book you all should read
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 10:19:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 10:19:40 1985
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Where do you get the idea that women don't read books about relationships,
Victor?!  If it's your past experience with women you've dated, well, either 
you've hit on a streak of women who don't or didn't at the time, or maybe for
one reason or another you didn't observe that they were reading them: after 
all, some people are a little secretive about self-improvement-type books.

In a less serious vein:
At any rate, even Harlequin Romances are fiction about relationships.   >gag<
Disgusting and unhealthy relationships, I think, but still  >gag<  they follow
a formula of learning to recognize desirable attributes in a man and the trials
and tribulations  >gag<  of finally falling into the mythical state of Happily-
married-ever-after,  >gag<  which,  >gag<  is the real goal of women.  >gag< 
(At least, according to those books.)

[I don't believe I admitted that!  Well, I've suffered so that the rest you
 don't have to!   But to clear my name, I read about 4 in January of 1984: a
 combination of boredom while waiting for laundry to finish, wild curiosity
 about whether they could really be so bad, and having actually been left with
 a few--a friend was toying with the idea of seeking her fortune writing 
 romances (in addition to engineering) and had gathered up some old ones for
 research, but she left the worst ones with me.  After I started the 4th one
 about a red-haired orphan, they became merely boring rather than ridiculous.
 (-: (-: At least they weren't left-handed telepathic red-haired orphans...:-)
 :-) ]

L S Chabot
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