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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (3587)2/19/1997 7:25:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte   of 108807
 
Hi Alexa!

You got me reflecting on empty neighborhoods.
Both Loving Spouse and I were the products of homes with resident mamas. Although I'd be hard pressed to defend my opinion in a rational manner to those who are more, uhm, progressive than yours truly, I share with her the intention of raising our projected progeny (enter me as sperm donor.) in a house with a parent in it. She's generously volunteered to be "it".
I remember my parents were on good terms with the neighbors, and if I or my rivals scored an owie at the many gloriously half-built houses at the weed-choked frontier of our suburb, there would always be a friendly bottle of Bactine around the corner. (Like h*## that stuff didn't hurt!!!) I didn't even learn real sailor talk until nearing college age.
Now we've bought our way into a pit of "Starter homes" in the Promised Land, and our attempts to integrate into our neighborhood have fallen totally flat. Feels like a city environment: folks don't want to crawl past the defenses erected in response to longstanding neighborhood feuds and general alienation. While there are some housewives left, the siege mentality has insulated'em. So it seems to me that we can have empty neighborhoods, even when the people are home. I have no clue how to deal with that except by maybe moving. (Fat chance.)
I am rambling, no?
Later Alex
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