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   Tweets9
   

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   This week's NYT "Modern Love" column looks at straight marriage and the unexpectedly lovely impact R74 has had on the words "husband" and "wife." The author's my sister and she and I sometimes took the #43 to the Penney's in Ballard, so that'll be the Ballard connection. Labels of Married Life, in a New Light, by Margot Page.

   In a whole different vein, Margot also has a memoir coming out: Pura Vida: An American Family Fails to Become Perfect in the Mountains of Costa Rica is about a year in Central America with two parents and three kids (4, 9 and 12). If you're interested in family dynamics, family travel, or struggling with the joys and not-joys of being in a complicated world of rich and poor, then give it a look.

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   Corvus
   

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   I liked the article. Thanks for sharing!

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   treehugger
   

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   +1. Thanks for sharing.

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   yourFriend
   

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   All this "research" results in what we already know. That we were all spoon fed to believe and that is that marriage, husband, wife are all magical words. Those of us who were allowed, hate the labels, others who were not allowed kept the lie going and ate it up themselves. In 20 years, maybe 10 they will abhor the archaic labels also.

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   iPlod
   

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   True yourFriend, or maybe a few thousand years like it took for the persecution of left handed people to fizzle out.

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   pennygirl
   

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   Leftie here. Left and proud.

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   iPlod
   

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   Who left you?

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   pennygirl
   

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   My right hand, When I was about 2 or 3.

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   iPlod
   

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   Well, I still have my right hand as my right hand hand, but only under strict rules of order.

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    Tweets9
    

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    And guess WHAT? The author of the article is left-handed, too! Crazy, the coincidences.

    Thanks, Corvus & Treehugger--glad you liked the article. Yourfriend, I like to think that the words can convey something powerful and good that *we* create--to me, that's the point of the article. Broadening the words' instead of leaving them stuck in back in archaic-land.

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    oldguybc
    

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    'Ploddo- me- lad... do your fingers know which hand they are on?

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    iPlod
    

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    Chrissakes, oldguy! If my fingers had brains they wouldn't need hands. On the other hand, if my brains had fingers...

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