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- From: mmzn@rice.edu (Mark Mazina)
- Subject: Re: Being Alone?
- Message-ID: <BxtMtu.DAL@rice.edu>
- Originator: mmzn@tarka.cs.rice.edu
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Reply-To: mmzn@rice.edu (Mark Mazina)
- Organization: Rice University
- References: <1992Nov12.022755.17214@microsoft.com> <amymw.721677596@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Nov15.151337.13175@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:17:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.151337.13175@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
- |> In article <amymw.721677596@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> amymw@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Amy Wisotsky) writes:
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- |> >A new boy/girlfriend can be found when the person is ready to find
- |> >one. It depends entirely on the person in question.
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- |> Well, I'm glad to hear that relationships are so easy to stumble upon at
- |> Brandeis, Amy. There's a lot of people out there that are "ready to
- |> find one", but are still alone. Consider the possibility that you don't
- |> live in a college atmosphere anymore where you're surrounded by nothing
- |> but people of your own age group that you're constantly interacting
- |> with. That's the great thing about college, isn't it? It's just a big
- |> pool of people that you can go out with on the weekend. Well, after
- |> that artificial world ends, your friends might find it difficult to
- |> meet someone new within the week.
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- This presumes Amy is a 20-something student, but what if she's a 36 year old (exactly) staff member at a University...
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- Part of communicating is learning to restrain our own pre-conceptions.
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- Mark
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