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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed

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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (155147)3/9/2002 8:53:33 AM
From: Oblomov  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
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Roberts rents an apartment with her sister and can't foresee buying her own
home until she is 33, six years later than she had planned. Instead of buying a
new Ford Explorer, she opted for a used 1998 model.

Ha... she didn't "opt" for a used Explorer. She had no other choice,

Most Gen-Xers are no better than Boomers in terms of greed and wastefulness, despite their insistence to the contrary. For most Americans born in the post WW-II period, frugality is something that comes only out of necessity: a result of devastating illness, debt overload, job loss, or involuntary downward mobility. Among the "cognitive elite" bourgeois bohemia of our large cities, frugality is invariably evidence that something has gone wrong... thus Ms. Roberts shame.
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