Connie, 70, campaigns for legal recreational drugs

A retired surgeon will lead calls this week for ecstasy and other recreational drugs to be legalized in a bid to stamp out violent crime fuelled by the illegal drugs trade.

Selling purified forms over the counter, alongside alcohol and cigarettes, would make drugtaking safer and could benefit the community at large, according to 70-year-old Connie Fozzard, who will emerge as the farther unlikely champion of the cause.

Although Fozzard’s motion to the British Medical Association’s annual conference is sure to divide opinions of her colleagues, she believes it is time for a public debate over “nanny state” attitudes. The government should “be treating people as adults and not treating adults as children in their own homes,” says Fozzard.

She claims that crimes committed by addicts to pay for their habits are terrifying the elderly. “The object of this exercise is to get rid of drug trafficking and disruption because it would be legal to use the drugs but not to cause disruption as a result of that, in just the same way as alcohol.”

“That would make a level playing field. I think there is something to be said for that and I think there should be a debate about it. At the moment you have got so many people who are frightened in their own homes and frightened out of them, who are housebound simply because of the muggings and burglaries which are done to fuel the habit.”

Legalizing the production of drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy could also deliver doses free of the contaminants often ‘cut’ into illegally produced substances to maximize profits. “There is an element of ensuring that what is used is purified and standardized,” she added. “And if it goes through licensed premises then it can be taxed just like alcohol. If it were taxed, you could control the quantity that is released on the market. It would take this stuff off the street.”

The motion calls for the expansion of “the range of legal recreational drugs available beyond alcohol and tobacco which are quality controlled and taxable.” It is likely to trigger argument, with mental health specialists in particular concerned about the long-term impact of cannabis and ecstasy use: the BMA advised against legalizing cannabis basing their decision on the evidence given to the Home Affairs Select Committee. However, Fozzard, who forged an impressive career in surgery in an era when it was dominated almost exclusively by an “old boys’ network,” is likely to be unfazed.

“My own view is somewhat mixed on this. I can see both sides of the arguments, but I think it’s an argument that should get out into the public voice,” she said.

Last year’s select committee report rejected legalization but recommended the downgrading of ecstasy – currently a Class A drug, like heroin – to a Class B, with less severe penalties for possession. Ministers rejected the advice but have agreed to downgrade cannabis from Class A to Class C, the least strictly regulated category for prohibited drugs. However, the Home Office remains strictly opposed to legalization.

Some experts argue that cannabis is less dangerous than tobacco, disregarding evidence linking it to schizophrenia and mental illness.

Ecstasy use was linked to more than 40 deaths in 2001, with research showing it may cause long-term depression. Furthermore, one study of 81 ecstasy-related deaths between 1997 to 2000 found that six died from ecstasy poisoning alone, with 50 having consumed a cocktail of drugs. The rest were down to heart failure, caused by recreational drugtaking, as well as trauma or accidents like drowning while under the influence.

Still more sinister evidence is provided by specialists working in obstetrics and gynaecology. Thus, a midwife at her hospital conducted a research into drugtaking among mothers of babies needing special care. She had thought it might apply in around 2% of causes – in fact, it turned out to be nearer 10%.

(http://www.theobserver.com)

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BEAUTY OF THE BODY

The concept of beauty is defined in Webster’s New World Dictionary as 1) the quality of being pleasing, as in form etc; 2) a thing with this quality; 3) good looks; 4) a very attractive person, feature etc.

The concept of beauty was first described by the Ancient Greeks. The classical values pushed order and serenity. The Greek philosophers Plato and Socrates also attempted to define beauty. They thought of objects of nature as being inherently beautiful: beauty is inside the object, “The beauty within an object is its pure and ideal beauty.”

In our present time beauty no longer resides inside. It is completely outlying. The road to become a beauty is a long, hard and most importantly thin road. Being thin is the biggest emphasis on people today. In earlier times fuller figured women were the ideal picture. Now you have to be a twig to be considered beautiful. Society keeps pushing the emphasis on being thin. Through magazines and ads urging to lose weight, hundreds of diets and phone numbers are given to aid in this fight against fat. They are being nothing but deleterious. Also in magazines the skinny models who are the picture of perfect health in their glamorous clothes and makeup are published. Long thin legs and high cheekbones. Television is also a major contributor to this obsession people have today with losing weight. Turn on the television and what is seen? Youthful bony models and actors running around. Giant billboards are a constant reminder of what’s beautiful and what’s not.

It’s a sick obsession which has become too serious, to the point of death even. People are feeling corpulent and are dying to be thin, literally. It all begins with youth. Adolescence is the most vulnerable point in anyone’s life. This is where it all starts. Being a teenager is not easy and there are many pressures that they face daily. The feeling of being anomalous can be a disaster. If teenagers feel that anything around them is out of control, they may feel distressed. It is important for families not to place any importance on their appearance. Fellow students at school are also part of the problem. One child has a faster metabolism than another. One is constantly reminded how much lower he or she is because they aren’t as thin as someone else. Teenagers should not be expected to be perfect. They need to be encouraged to be themselves and to be proud of who they are, so that they will not experience any pressures from their peers. If they are happy with themselves and loved for what they are, they will be less likely to try and attain society’s unattainable ‘ideal’ body image, because they will accept their bodies just the way they are. For men, they want to be the big muscled, winsome male that is pursued in just about every commercial.

The truth of the matter is that the majority of people will never be what the ideal image of beauty is. They are not a minority as they are led to believe. All the talk, advertisements and television repetition of this matter lead people to feel beneath others, it gives them a low self esteem and leaves them vulnerable. When this happens, eating disorders develop. People think that eating disorders are bizarre and out of the ordinary but in actuality they are quite common.

What by definition is an eating disorder? An eating disorder is defined as eating for the wrong reason. Not because of hunger and feeding a body. It’s eating out of anxiety, depression or just because. Patients are usually surreptitious about the disorder, not wanting a lot of attention. The most well-known eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Those affected are mostly young women and girls. People with these eating disorders often have a psychological profile of low self-esteem and feelings of helplessness. They tend to blame their problems оn their weight and consequently develop and overwhelming drive to lose weight. Eating disorders are devastating behavioral maladies brought on by a complex interplay of factors, which may include emotional and personality disorders, family pressures, and a culture in which there is an overabundance of food and an obsession with thinness. Although anorexia was first defined as a medical problem in 1873, descriptions of self-starvation have been found in medieval writings.

Anorexia nervosa is the disorder in which self-starvation takes place. With this disorder at least fifteen percent to as much as sixty percent of the normal body weight is lost. Anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in adolescent women, and is estimated to occur in 0,5 percent to three percent of all teenagers. Anorexia usually occurs in adolescence. However, over the past forty years, while the incidence has been stable in teenagers it has increased in young adult women. Anorexia nervosa often includes a feeling of being disconsolate, irritability, and withdrawal.

Bulimia nervosa is the diet-binge-purge disorder. Bulimia, which is more common than anorexia, is characterized by cycles of bingeing and purging. Bulimia nervosa usually begins early in adolescence when young women attempt restrictive diets, fail, and react by binge eating. Patients may revert to severe dieting, which cycles back to bingeing if the patient does not go on to become anorexic. The person feels out of control while eating. Even though bulimics put up a cheerful front, they are often depressed, lonely, ashamed and empty inside. Friends may describe them as competent and fun to be with, but underneath, where they hide their guilty secrets, they are hurting. Feeling unworthy, they have treat difficulty talking about their feelings, which almost always include anxiety, depression, self-doubt, and deeply buried anger.

Some of many disorders are malnutrition, which is caused by undereating or overeating. The word malnutrition indicates deficiency in energy, protein and micronutrients (e.g. vitamin A, iodine and iron) either singularly or in combination. It can cause severe health risks, including, but not limited to, respiratory infections, kidney failure, blindness, heart attack and death. Dehydration is caused by the depletion or lack of intake of fluids in the body. Symptoms include dizziness, blurred vision, passing out, heart pounding and headaches. One study indicated that women with eating disorders tended to be less optimistic, to worry more, and to deny negative issues when solving problems than were women without eating disorders. In general, women with eating disorders had a much more difficult time dealing with stress than other women. Such people tend to have unstable moods, thought patterns, behaviour, and self-images. They cannot stand to be alone, they demand constant attention, and they have difficulty controlling impulsive behaviour.

Society today has gone astray from the thinking of Soctates and Plato. Beauty is only skin deep, and steps are being taken to achieve it. The majority are youth. Teens and children are being taught that beauty is all and thin is beauty. They are developing ailments that are harmful and eventually fatal.

(www.goldenessays.com)

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HEALTH: A GAME OF SKILL

OR A GAME OF CHANCE?

When your doctor asks about hereditary health conditions that have affected family members, what illnesses come to mind? Do you consider only those diseases that have purely a genetic cause, such as sickle cell anemia, Huntington Disease, muscular dystrophy, or cystic fibrosis?

The truth is you should be considering many health conditions, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, forms of arthritis, mental illnesses, abnormal reactions to anesthetic medications, vision and hearing disorders, immune system deficiencies, chemical dependence such as alcoholism, and many others. Experts claim that as many as 1/3 to 1/2 of all health conditions such as these that affect man have a genetic component...a genetic connection if you will. Most of these conditions are classified as multifactorial disorders, meaning that both genetic and environmental factors play a part in their occurrence.

But does it mean that if there are disorders which run in our family we will not be able to escape them? Identifying these conditions a doctor can prescribe preventive measures to help avoid them, states Dr. Joseph Thompson from DePaul Health Center in St. Louis, Mo. “Taking the time to trace your family's health history can offer a lifesaving picture of your future. If people would take a proactive role with their health, many could live 15 years longer.”

So, knowledge of our family’s medical history is vital in helping doctors determine our risk of developing a disease. Once risks are known, prevention can begin. The doctor can then prescribe an individualized diet and lifestyle changes, and/or ordering medication to help prevent or delay the development of a disease to which one is predisposed because of heredity.

All of this is like a thrilling game. Like poker, perhaps. We have no option but to take up the cards issued to us. They cannot be changed, but we can learn to play with great skill – and perhaps win.

The game has been going on for centuries. Your great-great-grandfather took it up when he shuffled his cards containing ancestral genes with your great-great-grandmother’s cards. Innumerable genes are mixed up at each mating: the good ones preserved, the harmful ones – ousted or be revealed in your generation, but the genes go on and on. The vast majority of human beings are given good cards and often indifferent cards can be turned into winners. In this game of health there are many unforeseeable chances.

But what are the practical rules for healthy living? The formula of a healthy lifestyle cannot be put into words – it can only be practiced. Some people break so-called health rules every day and escape punishment and we all have conscientious friends who are literally obsessed with health and don’t live any longer in the end.

Actually, there are some principles which can help to counteract the harmful genes. The first and foremost is love in childhood. Parents’ love is the ideal soil for a human seed to grow. As recent studies show, much ill health originates when this love is, for some reason, denied. Thus, American students who reported a lack of affection in their family were much more prone to serious illness than those who felt being loved by both parents.

Another factor is nutrition – with all elements in proper proportion.

Next comes environment – air we breathe in, water and especially food we consume.

Stress makes an essential part of our life – but the art of living is to prevent stress becoming strain. A healthy organism can withstand overwork, fatigue, anxiety, microbes – up to a certain point, after which it “hits back”. Several studies have linked job strain and general demoralization to a great risk of heart disease, though the relationship is less causal than other lifestyle factors, like smoking. So, we have to learn by experience our own risk threshold and, if stress takes a toll on our life, learn to cope with it.

A personal belief is the most important element in healthy living, it is some faith in life which mobilizes our faculties and makes the most of them. People who are emotionally healthy are in control of their emotions and behavior. They are able to handle life’s inevitable challenges, build strong relationships, and lead productive, fulfilling lives. When bad things happen, they’re able to bounce back and move on. Unfortunately, too many people take their mental and emotional health for granted – focusing on it only when they develop problems. But just as it requires effort to build or maintain physical health, so it is with mental and emotional health. The more time and energy you invest in your emotional health, the stronger it will be. The good news is that there are many things you can do to boost your mood, build resilience, and get more enjoyment out of life.

Perhaps these health principles seem too theoretical, but they are golden rules which can stretch our powers, powers to fight against harmful genes.

Finally, the pursuit of health is a marvelous game, but it’s only a game. Health should never become a wholetime occupation. The person who makes health his god has lost it already, and this “god” will be deaf to his prayers.

(compiled from http://www.health.com/health)

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THE FAMILY UNIT

The family is an important subject in itself. It is not simply one among many social institutions. Instead, it is a central human organization in most – probably all – societies. Firstly, children grow-up within some family structure. Through their experience in this social group children make their first contacts with a wider society and are introduced to the cultural traditions, values and norms of the community they will eventually enter as adults. Due to this primary socialisation, the family plays a vital role in framing the way people develop individually (in terms of their personality) and socially (in terms of relationships with others).

Secondly, the family is the cornerstone of social organisation and, as such, its breakup would have grave consequences for social life. Thus, many people believe that lack of parental control and guidance is the root cause of many contemporary social ills, from vandalism to drug addiction.

Therefore the family tends to occupy an elevated position within the rhetoric of all major political parties. In a similar manner, notions of the family are closely linked with debates over national identity and cultural cohesion; commitment to the family values is frequently evoked as a source of national unity.

Moreover, the state of the family manifests the direction of historical change, as the quality of familial relationships is the test of society’s well-being.

Since the industrial revolution, rapidly changing employment patterns coupled with demographic and social movements have challenged the beliefs, laws and customs governing notions of family and gender. Women's greater participation in public as opposed to domestic life has been a key factor in generating fears about the collapse of the family throughout the past century. Shifting conceptions of gender identity and a decline of the ‘male breadwinner family’ were accompanied by an erosion of the traditional family patterns.

The first to go was the extended family, with parents and even grandparents, uncles and aunts living in close proximity to their grown-up children, which was the dominant form of family structure at least until the mid-twentieth-century. It is now found mainly in soap operas based in traditional working-class communities.

Furthermore, there has been a long series of legal reforms affecting sexual behaviour, kinship structures and the social status of women. On the one hand, these reforms resulted from humanitarian social movements such as feminism, which secured rights of guardianship, property ownership, political representation and reproductive control for British women. On the other hand, the ‘permissive’ legislation, reflecting the higher priority awarded to personal choice and freedom as opposed to morality and duty, brought about even more drastic changes in the domestic sphere. But the last thirty years have witnessed a particularly turbulent period in the family history, and specifically the reversal of gender roles.

Perhaps one of the most significant shifts over the last decades has been in attitudes towards marriage. Since the law made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has dramatically increased. In fact, one marriage in every three now ends in divorce. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is now more tolerant than it used to be of unmarried people, unmarried couples – cohabitees and single parents.

Formalizing a couple’s relationship with marriage vows has become unattractive to many people, more men and women opt to live together without constraints. New research by Mintel shows that only 65% of parents are married or co-habiting, about five million British parents (35% of the population) live in ‘non-traditional’ family set-ups. As a result, one in three children is now born out of wedlock. Actually, the decline in registered marriages is mirrored by a sharp increase in marital breakdown.

There is still a more alarming tendency. A new research dispels the myth that the decline of marriage can be blamed on increasing numbers of couples choosing to cohabit. It reveals that half of men in their twenties are commitment-phobic. A decade ago only a third of young men stayed single. There has also been a slight rise in the number of young women shunning serious relationships. But the findings show that while women are merely delaying commitment until later in life, increasing numbers of men are not settling down at all.

Another change has been caused by a greater longevity, and many old people live alone following the death of their partners. As a result, there are many households which consist of only one person or one person and children.

In addition to this, the last decades have witnessed a growth of childfree couples (20 %). This is largely attributed to both improvements in female education and career prospects and greater social acceptance of contraception. Childbearing is frequently postponed until the late twenties or early thirties and the majority of women work outside of the home both before and after having children, regardless of marital status. Consequently, only 24 % of contemporary British households fall into the ‘two adults plus dependent children’ nuclear model, and this figure includes not only married couples but the increasing number of long-term cohabitees.

All this is indicative of erosion of the traditional nuclear family, as well as of increasing diversity in family forms. In fact, there is now a much more complex structure of family life than there has ever been before. Rising divorce rates and growing pressures in the workplace make parents pass on childcare responsibilities to other relatives. ‘Communal parenting’ is becoming common in many families with siblings, grandparents and aunts stepping in. According to a recent survey, more than two million families in Britain already rely on the older generation for help with childcare while about 200,000 grandparents are sole carers.

Overall, gender roles are becoming somewhat more flexible and the two-parent, patriarchal family is gradually becoming less dominant. This has produced a variety of responses. Right-wing politicians and Church leaders tend to blame liberal reforms and permissive legislation for the moral decay and decline in traditional family life. From this perspective, the nuclear family unit is evoked as a symbol of social cohesion. Others argue that if permissiveness weakened the family, it was Thatcher's right-wing revolution which really killed it off and actually led to a more atomized, alienated society. The rampant individualism and consumer greed associated with the 1980s economic boom are, in this version, responsible for undermining the moral values necessary to sustain family life.

Anyway, probably the most important factor in the transformation of British gender identities has been the long-term and seemingly irreversible trend towards female participation in the paid labour force. Sociologists and psychologists never stop warning about the dangers of maternal deprivation caused by the working mother's absence. Fears concerning the welfare of so-called ‘latchkey kids’ reinforced the notion that children could not be properly cared for without a home-based mother, heightening public hostility towards ‘career women’. But in spite of these attitudes, women's paid employment is now an accepted fact of modern life.

Nevertheless, if the statistics indicate a rapid decline in allegiance to the traditional family these figures do not reflect the symbolic or ideo­logical importance of the conventional family unit, which remains strong despite its minority status. The two-parent, patriarchal family continues to be regarded by many as the most important of all social institutions bearing the brunt of responsibility for producing well-adjusted, law-abiding citizens. Marriage is still popular: around 75 % of people marry at least once. The majority of divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.

According to a recent survey by Vodafone, one in five British families liken themselves to the Royal Family, while just one in six see a likeness between their own family and The Simpsons. The strong traditional values of the Waltons make it the family that over half of Britons would like to emulate even though only 16% can say they are actually like them. However, 92% of people have a good idea of what makes traditional family values.

One consequence of the decline of the patriarchal family was the emergence of stronger friendship networks and of a more ‘companionable’ idea of marriage. The contemporary companionate model, based on mutual respect, emotional fulfilment and shared ‘quality-time’ has, at least partly, replaced the model which assumed separate spheres and female dependence. Relationships within the family are also different now. Parents treat their children more as equals than they used to, and children have more freedom to make their own decisions. The father is more involved with bringing up children, often because the mother goes out to work.

There is also evidence to suggest that new, more flexible family structures and systems of community support are beginning to take its place. Single mothers, for example, often rely heavily on one another for both childcare assistance and emotional support. Similarly, while children of divorced parents are generally regarded as disadvantaged, it has also been suggested that many actually benefit from drawing on a wider support network of two families.

Even if current trends hold, the conventional, two-parent families are likely to remain in the majority. In overall perspective, families still play a central role in providing for the health, income and security of both older and younger members.

Marriage and family themselves do not magically transform society for the better, though there are doubtless links. The characteristics which make up a successful marriage or family – love, commitment, compromise, forgiveness, respect – can also help to hold together a successful community or society.

(compiled from www.socialevils.org.uk/the-decline-of-the-family.html

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CITY GIRL

(condensed)

Maggie knew, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t suppress the knowledge, that she was not content with her life as it was. Being merely a wife and mother were not enough to fulfil her. She missed her job, badly. She was torn between the desire to take up the reins of her career again and the need to be at home for her children. On no account did Terry want her to employ a child-minder. But, then, he didn’t have to give up his career. He wasn’t imprisoned within the four walls of the house with only the babies for company. Yet she knew that if she did go back to work she would worry about the twins. She wouldn’t be there to see their first tentative footsteps. Another woman would have that pleasure.

Her mother had always been there for Maggie and the boys. She was the first person whey saw when they came in from school, standing at the cooker preparing their dinner, ready to listen to all their excited chatter. How much she had taken her mother for granted. Had Nelsie ever got fed up cooking, cleaning, caring? Did Maggie have the right to deny her children the security of motherhood while she searched for fulfillment? Did they have the right to expect her to give up her own desires? What was fair? What was right? Maggie didn’t know and Terry was no help.

Maggie was a great cook. She was a creative person, and to her cooking was an art, but she liked to be notified that visitors were coming so she could spend time preparing a special meal with all the trimmings. She knew Terry never thought of things like that. Bringing someone home wasn’t such a big deal in his eyes. She knew her husband felt that it was up to her to take care of things on the home front just like his mother had. That’s what marriage was all about, in his opinion. All he wanted, and was it too much to ask, he inquired testily, when they were having an argument over his attitudes, was to come home after a hard day’s work, relax over a drink and have a tasty dinner. If a client came with him what difference did one more mouth make?

“What about what I want?” Maggie demanded. “Do you ever think about that?”

Terry was shocked. Hadn’t he given her a lovely home, didn’t she have her own cheque book, plenty of food on the table, time to come and go as she pleased while he slaved away to provide for her and the children? What more could she possibly want? He genuinely couldn’t understand her attitude. “If my mother had had a tenth of what you have, she would have thought she was in heaven. You know it’s no joke at work. The pressure is killing me. All you have to do is take care of the babies and get dinner. The rest of your time is your own,” he said indignantly.

“I am not your mother and these are the eighties you’re living in, Terry. I am your wife, not your housekeeper. And I have a life to deal too and, believe me, I have precious little time to myself,” Maggie told him furiously one evening after he complained when he came home with a friend and found her surrounded by talcs and nappies and his dinner not yet cooked.

(by Patricia Scanlan)

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PERFECT MATCH

I walked into the office and shook hands with a smiling man named Mr. Bleaucher. He was dressed very well, compared to me. He shuffled a pile of papers like they were so many pancakes.

“I’m sure you’ll be very pleased with her,” he said. “She was picked by our compatibility computer out of over one hundred ten million eligible women in the United States. We categorize by race, religion, ethnic and regional background…”

I sat there interestedly wishing I had taken a shower before I came. It was a very nice office but the chair wasn’t too comfortable. “And now…” he said and flung open the door to the next room like a magician. He needed a cape, though. I was expecting a rabbit but I got a surprise. She was pretty. Really, she was pretty.

“Mr. Walker, this is Miss Dunfield of Laughing Lake, Montana. Miss Dunfield, this is Mr. Franklin Walker of New York.”

“Really Frank. Franklin is something else again,” she said. I was a little nervous. She was pretty, you see.

Mr. Bleaucher left and we were able to talk.

“Hello,” she said.

“Hello. I’m… I’m very pleased with the choice,” I said. I was trying to be suave. Maybe she didn’t like being called a choice. “I mean – I’m glad the way things turned out.”

She smiled. She had a nice smile. Good teeth.

“Thank you,” she said. “So am I.” She was shy.

“I’m thirty-one,” I blurted out.

“Yes, I know,” she said. “It’s all on the cards.”

It seemed like the conversation was about over. Everything was on the cards. So thee wasn’t really much to talk about.

“How about children?” she said.

“Three. Two boys and a girl.”

“That’s exactly what I want,” she said. “It’s down on the file under “Future Planning.” That one there.”

I suddenly noticed that sheaf of papers in my hand. On the first page was glued an IBM card with vital statistics about her. I guessed the thing she was holding was the same thing on me. I began looking though it and so did she. The turning pages made a lot of noise. It said she liked classical music. (This was in “Preferences and Habits”). “You like classical music?” I asked her.

“Well… better than anything else. I also have the complete collection of Frankie Laine records.”

“He was a great old singer,” I agreed.

I went on looking though the file and so did she. She liked books, football, sitting near the front in movies, sleeping with the windows closed, dogs, cats, goldfish, tuna fish, salami sandwiches, simple clothes, private schools for the children (our children, really), living in the suburbs, art museums…

She looked up. “It seems we like the same things,” she said.

“The exact same things,” I said.

I read the report titled “Psychology.” She was shy, avoided arguments, wasn’t outspoken, a good mother type.

“I’m glad you don’t drink or smoke,” she said.

“I don’t. I don’t like to. Sometimes I have beer, though.”

We finished reading the reports on each other.

“We’re very much alike,” she said.

Alice and I have been married for nine years now. We have the three kids already, two boys and a girl. We live in the suburbs and listen to a lot of classical and Frankie Laine records. The last time we had an argument is too far back to remember. We agree on practically everything. She’s been a good wife and, if I may say so, I’ve been a good husband. Our marriage is perfect.

We’re getting divorced next month. I can’t stand it.

(by Stephen Makler)

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