Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: 3 year old herpes patients Message-ID: <4925@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:53:21 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4925 Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:53:21 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:53:21 EST References: <740@loral.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 22 Long before herpes made the mass media as a *WOW* *Sexually Transmitted Disease*, people had herpes. They just called them cold sores. A real common way to get it was through having your diapers changes when Mom had a cold sore. Nobody made such a hell of a big deal about it at the time. But now, thanks to media hype, herpes is a *BIG PROBLEM*. Mikey should move to another school. Everybody should stop reading and writing stories of ``how herpes ruined my life''. Next misconception -- there are a lot of people I know who had no/few frinds in childhood. I am one of them. This does not ruin your life, either. It does not make you hate the human race any more than people who have firends often end up hating the human race. It tends to make you more empathetic, which is a good thing. Every fat, ugly, intelligent or pimply kid gets ostracised in school to some extent. Some people get ostracised totally. We don't all end up like Woody Allen. Eventually you get old enough so that you can shop around for friends, and when Mikey gets old enough he can meet me and a lot of my fiends who have discovered the wonderful truth that *it ain't such a big deal to have herpes*. Laura Creighton utzoo!laura