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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
- Message-ID: <9107@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:24:42 GMT
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- In article <ewright.728022512@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >There, again, I don't think there's a black-and-white distinction.
- >For me, anyway, romance begins with friendship, so there isn't much
- >distinction, in the beginning, between a romantic relationship and
- >a nonromantic one.
-
- Oh, okay, I didn't realize you meant the beginning of a relationship.
- Yeah, I'd agree with you that there's not much of a distinction.
-
- >I don't see how an interaction can be "romantic" and "unwanted" at
- >the same time. Presumeably you mean something like "sexual."
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- I didn't really mean sexual, exactly; I guess I meant that I'd be unwilling
- to spend time alone with a man (or woman for that matter) if I thought that
- a) the person in question was likely to assume that the one-on-one interaction
- meant that I was interested in a more than friendly way, and b) I *wasn't*
- interested in a more than friendly way.
-
- --Diamond
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- diamond@acpub.duke.edu| We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress
- | but the memory of the smell of smoke, and the
- | presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
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