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To: epicure who wrote (53674)	7/22/2000 5:56:05 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

X, I understand your post. I am aware of the bromides. Yet, is it so terribly rare to be non-aggressive, and yet be seen as aggressive? You write: "I know you THINK you communicate effectively, but you don't if you never get the result you want." True, except the word 'never' is too extreme. For instance, with Edwarda, I could talk my language and she would talk back in the same dialect. The great problem I feel is the immediate defense mechanism that comes into play with anything off the straight-and-narrow. Like, the two ladies in my post are threatened by my innocent colloquy. They respond with "I'm gonna send you to jail!" messages. I have said before, that, in a distant way, I have always had an eerie respect for your objective, away from the polls and masses, approach to posting. This is apparent in your response to my Personals Post. Let me ask you a question: You use the term 'reaching out.' What if I am not reaching out - for white bread. But looking for rare pastery? Is the repeated rejection worth the against-the-odds hope that somehow, someday, maybe, a free spirit will arise and tell me to kiss her a.. And I will reply, after you kiss mine... And the absence of inherent hostility will be recognized. In fact, I am essentially content in hermithood. I think me look for nother hermit-type to lie comfortably with. Admit it! You incited this response by being so thoughtful in your reaction to my Life's Story. geo

To: epicure who wrote (53674)	7/22/2000 6:23:04 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

X, this is a footnote. My father, long since passed, lost a leg in WWI. As I understand it, up to the time he met my mother, he was a jolly-do-well buddy of a group of contemporaries. The missing leg was openly given the quality of allowing him to drink more, to other things I cannot specifically recall. But, the wooden leg was 'on the table.' When he met my mother, he was persuaded that the absence of a leg was a detriment, a shame, a shortcoming, an indication of being crippled. Now, this is why I add this footnote, is it better to allow the fact of a wooden leg be a fact, or is it preferable to deny the thing? Don't we all, in one way or the other, have a wooden leg? geo