ted: What a rotten thing to say. Why should she "learn to let go"? Have you lost a child? Do you, in your infinite wisdom, know this woman's entire story so that you're qualified to pass judgment on her?
You're the one who should learn to let go. Of your shortsighted snap judgments.
Splint Chesthair, they say their feelings for me are just friendly. That's all I have to go on, and I believe them. There's one in particular with whom I'm very close. About once a week, when our schedules permit, the two of us go out to a local bar and drink beer for a few hours and talk about our lives and maybe watch a football or hockey game or something. Then we give each other a hug and she goes home to her boyfriend. He's also a friend of mine, incidentally, though I'm not as close with him as with her, and he absolutely knows where she is when we're out together. I'm not one for sneaking around.
In other words, yes, I'm talking about a good, close friend. Such friendships are rare between genders, but heck, they're rare within one gender too.
I've got female friends who are totally platonic, for whom I have no romantic/sexual feelings at all. Not many, to be honest, but some.
I've also got female friends toward whom I have both friendly feelings and sexual attraction, but I keep the attraction to myself for one reason or another (one of us is in a relationship, she's not into guys, she's made it clear that she's not interested, etc.). I think that's more common, but true platonic friendship is absolutely possible.
"...a sequence of numbers in which every third number is the sum of the previous two numbers."
Need to remove "third" from that sentence, or, to be perfectly accurate, change it to "every number from the third onward." (The first two numbers in the series can't be the sum of the preceding two numbers, because each is preceded by fewer than two.)
I know the theaters have to make money, but I do miss the days when you'd walk into the theater and there was soft music playing and a curtain across the screen. The music would stop, lights would dim, and the curtain would pull back as the movie started. It always felt like an event.
I've got an original, hardback copy of "The Drinking Man's Diet Cookbook" I found in a thrift shop years ago. The recipes sound disgusting, but the cover's such a conversation piece that I keep it around.
Oh, and if folks need some kind of reward to motivate them, my local center usually gives donors some kind of freebie, like a t-shirt or something.
You're the one who should learn to let go. Of your shortsighted snap judgments.
In other words, yes, I'm talking about a good, close friend. Such friendships are rare between genders, but heck, they're rare within one gender too.
I've also got female friends toward whom I have both friendly feelings and sexual attraction, but I keep the attraction to myself for one reason or another (one of us is in a relationship, she's not into guys, she's made it clear that she's not interested, etc.). I think that's more common, but true platonic friendship is absolutely possible.
Need to remove "third" from that sentence, or, to be perfectly accurate, change it to "every number from the third onward." (The first two numbers in the series can't be the sum of the preceding two numbers, because each is preceded by fewer than two.)
Wait, so it's reusable AND it can be taken off and re-worn? Amazing!
*sigh* The decline of journalism.
Yeah, I'm a cranky grammar-Nazi this morning.