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To: elmatador who wrote (52445)7/18/2009 7:11:25 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217869
 
normal chinese wife would, as all members of that sex, learn fast about materialism, i am guessing, unless they were raised from young to live thriftly and save, etc etc and hold true

but yes, they may be hardier, especially when found in africa

we may be witnessing the replay of 18/19 centuries

in any case

in hk there actually are well understood and acknowledged set menu prices of monthly allowance and upfront goodies (car, apartment, driver, etc etc) for mistresses of varying quality, public image, graded and calibrated by time devotion (exclusivity to time-multiplexed vacation time share style)

once the principle is breached, what remains is just and simply pricing, and the hk pricing, as in the case of the robert redford/demi moore movie, is market pricing that for the unprincipled would be irresistible