"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> cramer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> > Wasn't 'friends' the thing that was going to replace marriage and
> > family - when the feminists decided they didn't need men.
>
>
> Actually, a lot of men are thinking they don't really "need" women...?
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/us/06marry.html
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>
> EXCERPTS
>
> In 1980, only 6 percent of men in their early 40's at all levels of
> education and 5 percent of women in their early 40's had never
> married. By 2004, this ****tion had increased to 16.5 percent of men and
> about 12.5 percent of women.
>
> ...
>
> "She always says: 'You're going to be my roommate forever. Then
> when I get married, you're going to live in my basement,' " Mr.
> Thomas said. "I'm like, 'Pleeease. When you start dating, I'm
> going to be so out of there.' "
>
> When Mr. Thomas fell in love last year and began bringing his
> girlfriend to the town house, Ms. Mahoney complained that his
> girlfriend, a 33-year-old dialysis technician, was sloppy. Meanwhile,
> his girlfriend objected to the time that he spent with Ms. Mahoney, Mr.
> Thomas said.
>
> "It was a constant form of stress," he said. The two had discussed
> moving in together, but the bickering made them wonder if it was a good
> idea. In February, after one year together, they broke up.
>
> "I miss her horribly," Mr. Thomas said quietly one recent Saturday
> after stopping at a health store to buy vitamins on Ms. Mahoney's
> shopping list.
Acgtually, Mr. Cramer has admitted elsewhere that he doesn't particularly
like the baser acts of ***, so I doubt he would miss women much.
Norma
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