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From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Living Alone
Message-ID: <285@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 12:29:38 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 12:29:38 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 01:58:08 EDT
Reply-To: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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I've been living alone (with brief visits from my distant SO)
for the past three years.  I just moved into a house with three
other people.  While this will work out fine, I miss my privacy.
I miss being able to watch what I want to on TV, turning up my
stereo, having a clean kitchen, leaving the bathroom door open
while I take a shower, and walking around nude.  There are
usually people around, but that doesn't mean I don't get lonely.
It is an okay living situation, but it isn't ideal.  (At least
I'm upstairs and we don't have noises in the night. :-) )  

However, I plan on spending the rest of my life living with a
certain someone.  I don't think living alone is good or bad;
it's how you feel about it when you are in that situation.  I
think we all need some space, but we differ in how big that space
needs to be.  Right now, I can deal with living with these other
people.  There are a heck of a lot of people out there I could
not live with.  Given a choice, I'd live alone, but for the next
year or so, I'll live here because I can't afford to live this
close to campus (I'm almost 26, but I'm still in grad school and
don't own a car.) on my stipend.  In some ways the way I deal
with living here is the way someone just talked about dealing
with long distance relationships.  You don't have very high
expectations or you know it will be over in a given length of
time.  My LDR should over about the time I move out of here.
			No hugs :-(,
				Beth Katz