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| Normal Man Marries Oblong Woman
by nenebubbles at 5/28/2009 7:53:39 AM
That was a headline on the social pages of the Normalite or Pantagraph newspaper many years ago (I think, around 1948). In Illinois there is a town called Normal and about sixty miles away is a town named Oblong. It was sent to the Reader's Digest as one of their humorous stories.
It was later mentioned in a satirical book about the provincialness and isolation of the Midwest. The author said that was in the newspaper when the leading news in more important papers was a stock market plunge and many other national crises.
But the events that really affect our lives and the ones we keep our interest are births, marriages, and deaths. Our community likes to know these things because these events are things we can do something about ... buy a gift, attend the celebration, or pay our respects.
On our DH community, we are interested in our cyber friends and the milestones in their lives ...
Have they met the Normal man or the Oblong woman?
How did that work out?
Are they and their family well?
How are they holding up under some stress in their life?
What funny or interesting thing happened to them?
 .... Still looking for a good normal man ... oblong is a shape too .. But not sure it is for marriage.
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