You "accounted" for it Chris by talking about salaries, apartments, etc. What does this have to do with love?
Joanna
Chris Doss wrote:
>--- Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Not quite Russia, but close enough: my partner is
>>from a
>>smallish city in Serbia and his family all still
>>live there.
>>I'm 35, he's 27. If any of them think it's weird
>>they've
>>done very well to keep me from noticing.
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>Exactly. Eastern Europeans just don't cognize their
>social world in that way, at least the ones I know.
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>Amaricans, on the other hand, live in a
>time-of-life-based caste system where your
>partner/friends is/are expected to be a carbon copy of
>you -- same age, same income level, same educational
>level, same level of "success." I know this is an
>exaggeration, but it is true to some extent
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>Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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