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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living alone
Message-ID: <1440@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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In article <1726@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>
> love doesn't get you through the hard times, commitment does.
>Commitment, to me, means being willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make
>it work. This includes "suffering" through the inevitable bad times.
>The concept most people have of "love" does not admit to there being any
>bad times. This "expectation" that a love relationship doesn't include
>any bad times usually leads to disappointment and failed relationships.
>

   And then there are silly people like me who feel that love *includes*
such awful things as commitment, responsibility, etc.  Although people have
pegged me as somewhere between an agnostic and an atheist, I believe the
"Love is/love isn't" passage from the Bible (you know, the one often read
at weddings; just don't ask me for a reference) is appropriate.

 - joel "vo" plutchak
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