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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Just how far can friendship go? - deviding line submitted
Message-ID: <1628@hao.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 15:00:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 15:00:42 1985
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> In short, this
> whole discussion (about friendship ending and SOship beginning) is
> fairly pointless since every person is going to have his or her own
> definition of it.  There is no big thick black line that you can cross
> and say "Aha, now we're SOs!"  Life ain't that easy.

   Exactly. And, similarly, there is no magic opening line (or set of opening
lines) that will be guaranteed to work. Some people in this group seem
to want a "formula" for how to meet MOTOS (or how to turn meetings into 
something), but THERE AIN'T NO FORMULA. You will only frustrate yourself
if you continue to look for a formula. Formulas work on computers, which
are guaranteed to react the same way to the same input data on the same
formula. People just DON'T work that way.

--Greg
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