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- From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.052012.2225@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
- References: <1992Dec23.165649.5640@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:20:12 GMT
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- Soprano wanders back into the Place from the meadow where she has been
- taking part in the healing ritual for the Didi-Sprite just in time to
- hear Aahz say
-
- >We're having a nice little discussion (read "flamewar" ;-) in
- >alt.polyamory about the nature of monogamy. I'd like to hear some
- >thoughts from people in this newsgroup about what it means to them.
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- She goes over to the bar and gets an eggnog from Mike before settling
- back down at her vocal-score-covered table.
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- "Monogamy, huh? I guess I'd define it as being committed enough to one
- person to want to make a life with that person to the exclusion of
- others. Ideally, this would be both physical and emotional -- but I
- have found to my great consternation that it is possible to be
- physically monogamous while being emotionally polyamorous."
-
- Soprano
-
- "You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
- You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time."
- "From Me to You", Janis Ian
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- | Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe) uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
- | Claremont, CA uribe@hmcvax.claremont.edu |
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