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David Nelson's avatar

Surely, by now, technology can provide the Infinite Questionnaire to compartmentalize us all down into the (micro) groups we are perfect for.

Each answer, eliminates at least half of the contenders.

Taking the fantasy to its end, you've found The Perfect Friend-Match! And you're meeting them TONIGHT; he/she/it [which is not to say she-it] is coming over! The doorbell rings! The AnTiCiPaSHUN! You throw open the DOOR!

But it's only you...

No. BETTER, is the approach in the account I read somewhere in these pages, by a liberal who was brought over to the bright side by the tolerant listening of a conservative. SadieJay, you would eschew my camaraderie for the paltry excuse that ~I~ hold colonscopies to be the chief result of chem trails?! Oh, just say it ain't so! No! Forfend! Take me under thy wing [I have gone Elizabethan for some reason] and bring me 'round. You have much to give. We, none of us, in this day, have the luxury to give in to hoarding. Share, SHARE!

And forgive. It occurs I should be asking you to forgive my horning in.

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Listening I have no problem with. Letting someone in as friend to me and a friend to thee (if thou art truly my friend) is another story. Friend implies Emergency Contact closeness. Acquaintance acquiesces to listening and hearing and giving opinions if asked. I have many acquaintances but few friends I would trusteth with my life.

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David Nelson's avatar

Okay, I see-eth thou's point. Even the nice conservative listener lady didn't trust with her life, the liberal seeker of truth, instantly.

I'm just saying, please keep the Applicants' door open. (That's me, 17th from the front. Wearing the Trump-as-Batman mask.)

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