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From: beslove@gymble.UUCP (Adam Beslove)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Hello, I'm back from the void
Message-ID: <384@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 20:26:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 20:26:13 1985
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>Onward

I used to be beslove@osu-eddie, and then I wasn't.  It was pretty traumatic
being off the net, but I ripped up my roots and moved to DC.  Things are
going well now, except I could use a few good hugs.  Sigh...

The singles scene is very different here from Columbus.  Interracial couples
are common.  Many of the non-whites|blacks|hispanics students are not first
generation.  They are fully Americanized, quite unlike the international
students at OSU (and no doubt elsewhere) who are more ethnic.

In some ways the international's cultural contributions are more exciting,
even though the gap between cultures may be broader.  But to see people of
many different races mixing readily within the same culture, reading the
same newspapers, making music together at Dupont Circle, speaking the same
idioms and smooching in the park--these things too are exciting.  

There's also a really good chocolate store in Georgetown, and all things
considered, I'm home.

Adam Beslove   (c)1985		(aka: Odious Verity)
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