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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: this yuppie's opinion, or......
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 18:26:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 18:26:31 1985
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>> i guess what i'm trying to say is those of us on the road well
>> travelled often HAVE looked around, we've seen all the roads, and
>> this is the one we've chosen. your letter condemned that action.
>> "...wasting incarnations.", but i don't think it's so bad... you can
>> find your spirit within your body, your journey etc. and still be
>> married, have kids, mow your lawn every saturday and live in
>> Suburbia U.S.A. most don't, but don't blank condemn those of us
>> that do. sure, in some ways it's copping out, but the reason a
>> lot of people are there (suburbia U.S.A. for example) is because
>> they like it. that's why places like that are so popular in the
>> first place...

>> ron vaughn

Well, you'll never know for sure, Ron, until you've survived a night
of 15-foot seas with the lightning so blindingly intense the mast is
pulsing with St. Elmo's fire.  And strobing between the flashes against
a low sky of grey froth, the tiny phosphorescent particles dancing in
the swell and in your hair.  (I have to say, after that one, I almost
settled down.)

But some of us have always looked at said suburbia and said, "well,
anyone can do it that way--let's try something else", and we live
differently.  But we keep getting roadblocks thrown in our road by
suburbia USA.  It insists that we all conform rigidly to its standards. 
Sunny's transsexuality undoubtedly draws more flak than my communal
lifestyle, but you deviate just a bit from the norm, and you get
shot at (literally, sometimes).  What is it--what are YOU--scared of?

Ron, I'm glad you're happy--there's so little happiness anywhere
these days.  Just don't ram your definition of happiness down my
throat, like the fundamentalist religionoids want to.  I'm *NOT*
going to grow up, and *YOU* can't make me!
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