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To: Ilaine who wrote (41813)	11/14/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

What I remember was that all those "clowns" provided valuable experience- after all they were the proof that what you wanted was a guy that was everything they were not. And looking back, many of the "nerds" that I was too inexperienced to value in high school probably made wonderful husbands. And they wanted to date me but I was too silly to realize how great they were. But I found myself a brilliant nerd as SOON as I figured that out. The more you date, and the younger you start sifting seriously - the less likely you are to get married for the wrong reasons - like some misplaced hope that your married life will mimic your teenage infatuations. Because if you start dating young enough marriage isn't practical- and you get the horrible infatuations EVERYONE has, out of your system before you begin to contemplate marriage seriously. Of course some people manage to date clowns and never figure out they are dating clowns (which is, I guess, how clowns reproduce). But lots of people lead really odd desperate unhappy lives they don't HAVE to lead, but choose to lead anyway. Go figure. I'd rather be happy if I'm given a choice. I don't know why other people choose not to be happy, or choose to pick loser men (or women) over and over again.