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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:04:40 GMT
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- In <1993Jan21.194936.5318@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
-
- >I also know people who seem to have no interest in
- >being in a relationship at all (one in particular has the problem that
- >she's (by our current social standards) very attractive, intelligent, etc.,
- >and keeps having people decide that she's their ideal woman and wanting
- >to live the rest of their lives with her while her interest in even
- >dating anybody is simply nonexistent).
-
- Or so she says. Bet you a hundred bucks she's married within
- five years.
-
-
- >What I do want to know is why you feel so certain about this pronouncement
- >that it is impossible to be happy being single?
-
- The obvious insincerity (and, when you get beneath the surface,
- unhappiness) of those who claim it is possible.
-
-
- >I'm happy enjoying a hot fudge brownie sundae and I'm also happy enjoying
- >a good pizza--how is enjoying being single and enjoying being not-single
- >so different?
-
- Let's see... a pizza is not the negation of a hot-fudge sundae?
-
- Gosh, easiest test I ever took!
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-