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From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Steve Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: living alone
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 09:30:54 EDT
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  I live alone.  I have lived alone for the past 4 years, since my second wife
and I separated.  I also lived alone between the time my first wife and I
split up and I got married again, except for one semester of graduate school
when I had an apartment-mate.  That was a disaster.  At that point in my life,
having just separated, I really needed to be alone, to heal up inside, and I
felt an apartment-mate was a foreign object invading my environment and privacy.
It wasn't the apartment-mate's fault at all.
  I look forward to living with a significant other someday again.  But for now,
even though it is more expensive living alone, I am making the best of the
advantages: control of my living space (I like the "thermostat" and "leaving the
door of the bathroom open during a shower" examples), having a place where I can
get away from it ALL.
-- 
"If that's true, then I'm the Pope!"		Stephen J. Hartley
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