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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Marriage in "Th' Good Ol' Days"
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 13:34:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 13:34:41 1985
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Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Well, Tom, the "Good" old days of marital self-defense aren't
completely gone in Chicago.  At my previous apartment the
owners lived immediately downstairs.  The husband used to get
drunk frequently and begin some domestic violence.  Eventually
the wife shot him (non-fatally).  Since then they still yell
sometimes, but there's been no violence.

However, last year we saw their son outside on the corner
with his wife and he was threatening to kill her.  We called
the police and as far as I know nothing more has occurred.

The more things remain the same, the more they remain the same.
Change is, almost by definition, the only answer.
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