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Re: Friends and Lovers(was ..HEADGAMES?)

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From: Robert Becker
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <47e0ot$i5m@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>,
CHARLIE BARTA  <orlando4@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Not to mention the fact about how much it hurts to become friends
>>with someone and have them reject you because you won't go further
>>with it.  For this reason I keep my friendships with straight men
>>who aren't going out with a friend of mine or friends of a boyfriend
>>at a certain level.  Cafe friends I'd call it.  Someone whose company
>>Aqua
>
>Your kidding right? Isn't it better to love and be left, than never
>have loved at all?

Charlie, did you read Aqua's comment?  Aqua said that she keeps
straight men who are dating her friends or are friends of her
boyfriend at a distance.  I see nothing wrong with that:  they're
already *involved*, don't you see?

And no, sometimes it *isn't* better to have/be loved and left.
Blanket statements are pretty useless.

					Robert
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From: robertb@math.mit.edu (Robert Becker)
Subject: Re: Friends and Lovers(was ..HEADGAMES?)
Date: 1995/11/04
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