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[johnslat]

Dear Deicide,

Not always - but like marriage, living alone has its upsides and its downsides.

For me, the downsides outweigh the upsides; for others, maybe it's the opposite.

Regards,
John

[littleoldlady]

Loneliness sucks.
But, I have my cyberfriends to keep me happy.

[With Malice Toward None]

Dear JS,
I do not know really whether you enjoy being single, or, just the experience of having been married once is enough- but either way, you don't seem to have done poorly, at all. Congratulations. I and my wife had our 25th ann.(silver, they call it) on the 2nd Nov and we didn't have too many regrets. We do fight and the upsides and downsides are all there but at the end of the day I wouldn't call it a bad deal at all. It takes a lot of patience to stay together,wallah! The major problem is with the kids and relatives, , , , , , ,and so on.
Regards,
WMTN.

[trapezius]

The Day of Judgement can't come any sooner for such 'humans'.

[johnslat]

Dear WMTN,

"I do not know really whether you enjoy being single, or, just the experience of having been married once is enough-"

I didn't enjoy being single all that much - which is why I've tried being married three times.

The third time seems to be lucky - we celebrated our fifth anniversary(a record for me) a couple of months ago.

Regards,
John

[veiledsentiments]

[With Malice Toward None]

[Deicide]

[johnslat]

Dear veliedsentiments,

As I've told my in-her-forties single niece: There's only one thing worse than being single, and that's being married - to the wrong person.

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one"

Regards,
John

[Deicide]

[veiledsentiments]

[Deicide]

[johnslat]

Dwear Deicide,

Much as I hate to nitpick (Yeah, right) "unique" cannot be modified. And, of course, everyone's DNA (one's genetic "material") is unique (if it's not, CSI is in BIG trouble.)

Regards,
John

[Deicide]

[johnslat]

Dear Deicide,

Well, OK - perhaps I was being just a tad prescriptive there:

"Usage Note: For many grammarians, unique is the paradigmatic absolute term, a shibboleth that distinguishes between those who understand that such a term cannot be modified by an adverb of degree or a comparative adverb and those who do not. These grammarians would say that a thing is either unique or not unique and that it is therefore incorrect to say that something is very unique or more unique than something else. Most of the Usage Panel supports this traditional view. Eighty percent disapprove of the sentence Her designs are quite unique in today's fashions. But as the language of advertising in particular attests, unique is widely used as a synonym for "worthy of being considered in a class by itself, extraordinary," and if so construed it may arguably be modified. In fact, unique appears as a modified adjective in the work of many reputable writers. A travel writer states that "Chicago is no less unique an American city than New York or San Francisco," for example, and the critic Fredric Jameson writes "The great modern writers have all been defined by the invention or production of rather unique styles." Although these examples of the qualification of unique are defensible, writers should be aware that such constructions are liable to incur the censure of some readers."

but then, otherwise, I'm pretty perfect.

Regards,
John