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From: amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living alone
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Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 09:45:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 09:45:40 1985
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> You choose loaded words, Andy. Why "self-indulgent" and "intolerant?"
> What does a lack of another person under my roof have to do with my
> ability to relate to other people and care for them?
> .......
> Why do you feel obliged to lay things like self-indulgence and
> intolerance on people who have chosen other life styles than you,
> Andy? Especially when those people aren't sitting in judgement over
> you.
>                        -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly

My original posting generated more mail than I ever would have
imagined possible. I never said that the mere fact of living alone
automatically made you intolerant and self-indulgent, I merely
suggested that it was a possibility. As for choosing life-styles, I
am living alone right now, and I like it. But to get back to the
original query that started the whole mess, my long-range goal is to
enter into a permanent sharing of my life with someone else.

Just to keep things hot, I'll repeat what I said a few days ago:

Why is everyone so defensive about my suggestion that living alone
*might* make you a little less tolerant????

Best regards,
Andy Cohill
{allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc

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