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From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living Alone: Abnormal?
Message-ID: <1865@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 21:46:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 21:46:50 1985
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In article <766@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> omo@mcnc.UUCP (Julie Omohundro) writes:
>
>I have noticed that,
>in the discussion on living alone, a lot of people jued forward
>to say that they thought living alone was not abnormal, including
>a lot of people who lived alone (or had).  But almost all of
>you still expressed a desire/hope/wish to live with someone else
>again some day.  (Elizabeth being an exception, I believe?)  I also
>live alone and plan to do so forever and ever amen.  (Call me
>irresponsible |-))  I'm perfectly happy that way, but I was
>surprised at how few live-aloners had that as a long-term game
>plan.

	Yep, I am an exception. I have to admit, it made me feel good to
know that there was one other "irresponsible" person out there. I don't
know if I'm all that surprised that there are so few people out there
who want to live alone forever. It just isn't done much in our society,
for whatever reasons. What did surprise me though, is that the only
person who I've found (if memory serves me correctly) who agrees with me
is a woman (yes, I mean you Julie.) I really expected that if anyone
would feel this way it would be a man. I don't know if I can explain why
I thought that, but I did. Is there anyone else out there who thinks
that they will, or would like to, remain single forever?

	cheers -

	elizabeth g. purtell

	(Lady Godiva)