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From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Nominally single????
Message-ID: <533@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 00:06:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 00:06:02 1985
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In article <285@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:
>J. Eric Roskos writes:   (paraphrase)
>
>"...we have some people who are nominally single, while others are
>really single..."
>^^^^^^
>
>Okay, I give up. What's the difference? Seems like a binary kind of
>thing to me. You are, or you aren't. (I might also add, "Who cares?")
>

	Single:  unmarried (currently unmarried, I suppose, as the term
divorcee is now archaic)

	nominally Single:  unmarried but enjoying a close relationship with
an SO (possibly living together but with at least two abodes)

	POSSLQ:  Census Bureau acronym for Person of Opposite Sex Sharing
Living Quarters

	Isnt this complicated?


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