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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Modern life style

dream marriages

2nd

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lended families

4-3-2024 https://www.aol.com/news/single-mom-hung-her-kid-221433926.html

As early as 1997, a Burmese friend (female) told me she had formed a blended family. This interracial couple is still together.

Mrs. Inge Sargent and Tad Sargent were another shining example--though I think Tad was single at the time he met or was introduced to Inge--widow of Hsipaw Sawbwa Sao Kya Seng who was killed/tortured in prison by Ne Win minions.

Tad adopted Inge's daughters. He famously said in one documentary, "I'm not a prince."

Inge said, "Can you imagine, with 2nd husband and writing about the first?"

Being happy is the best revenge.

I agree--men and women should take the initiative.

But shld look in a logical manner and not for "bottom feeders" in personal ads. though my spiritual/Christian advisor BD found her partner that way.

Fr

om my dorm room I saw B hit the fire-hydrant at the bus stop with her hand bag. She said she left her marriage in the Mid-West bc "she was not allowed to be a chaplain, only to be a wife," she got "one gravy boat" out of a dinner set--

she had a photo of her handsome African-American adopted son-- and she had in her office room a small sculpture of a crucified Christa, naked with breasts. M

aybe I should paint that, like Gauguin's Yellow Christ.