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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: Age-ism and the gay community
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.151045.11332@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec18.021033.13179@bsu-ucs> <1992Dec20.123132.19229@reed.edu> <1992Dec21.202931.19993@osf.org> <1992Dec22.031736.26965@spdcc.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:10:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.031736.26965@spdcc.com>, dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec21.202931.19993@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
- > >It still felt to me like he was considerably my
- > >junior. (We're still friends, BTW, and at 37 he should seem like a
- > >contemporary, but because of that history he feels "younger" in a way
- > >that Steve Dyer, say, does not.)
- >
- > Well, how should we go about to "fix" this, er, problem? Eh? :-)
-
- Problem? Maybe I should have been a little clearer about which part of
- the "history" makes me feel that way...
-
- > For example, I am still somewhat footloose,
- > probably more than I ought to be, whereas annuities and mutual funds for
- > maximizing his return for his retirement plan have seized my lover's
- > imagination. At age 47, age 65 comes upon you very quickly. Or so I'm
- > told. :-)
-
- Interesting... I'm about Tony's age, and retirement still seems like a
- long way off. Of course, that might be because *I* have a lover who's
- rather closer to it than I am.
-