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From: amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill)
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Subject: Re: Living with an SO
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 07:54:07 EDT
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> Better to live alone first mayhaps.
> If you can do that, you probably won't come as near being a burr
> under someone elses saddle.
> Tom Frye

Bingo! I had forgotten this first. At the risk of receiving some 
nuclear powered flames, I am going to make a generalization of
historic proportions.

NEVER get involved with a person that has not lived at least a 
year by themselves, in their won apartment, without financial
support from other sources (like parents).

The great thing about living alone is that it forces you to come to
terms with yourself; in other words, on all those cold winter nights
that you spend alone, you have to discover just what it is that is
so interesting about yourself, and convince yourself that it is
true, even when no one else thinks you are interesting. (Why else
would you be home alone??)

If you have always lived with family, roommates, SOs, etc, you are
able to avoid this introspection entirely. And I think herein lies
the roots of the women's lib. In the past, Women very rarely ever
had the opportunity to live independently. They went straight from
family, to dorm living, to marriage, and never had the opportunity
to get to know themselves. It's no wonder they are pissed off....

Andy Cohill
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