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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- References: <1992Dec23.165649.5640@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.052012.2225@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:40:41 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
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- >>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."
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- "!" kitten agrees wholeheartedly...."soprano....you have described me
- to a t!"
- --
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- conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
- "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
- ~ trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- "love is the wild card of existance"
- rita mae brown
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