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    A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love

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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    12/20/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    i thought "A Special Kind of Love" was going to be about a social worker falling in love with her mentally handicapped client.


    oh well.

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    Image of Liz11685 Liz11685
    12/20/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    This is totally what both my parents did for a living in the late 60s-mid 70s. But I can't really see either of them verbally abusing anyone- although my dad has said some pretty radical things about his old clients.


    Who knew this job was interesting enough to write about?? And, Helen sounds really, really mean and shouldn't be working with people who require niceness and patience.

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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/20/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    I don't dislike Helen because she's a wretched bitch. I dislike her, or anyone, who says "to boot". I just... I just hate that. She IS a wretched bitch, though. But in a refreshing way, as JB said, most of the chicks in these stories are nauseatingly schmoopy.
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    Image of iloveastone iloveastone
    12/19/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    Was this what Lifetime would have been like circa 1964? Maybe Oxygen would still film a movie about this. I'm so glad I found my first screenplay.
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    12/19/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    Yikes. So apparently I've been doing my job wrong? And here I thought my students' excellent grades and growing confidence was a good sign. *Headdesk*
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    Image of DangerMouse DangerMouse
    12/19/08

    @goldberry83 is solid. Solid like Barack!: Of course that's wrong! Life sucks, better get used to it now, kiddies!
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    12/19/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    This really made me giggle. But that could be because i'm snowed in and drunk.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    12/19/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    It's refreshing to have a love story where the heroine is genuinely unlikeable. Usually they're so painfully likable that I want to kill them. Which is not to say that I approve of her personally. I just like to see someone tweak the genre assumption that only certain kinds of people find love and get married.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    12/19/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    Has anyone ever read Apartment 3G? Because this reminds of that comic strip.
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    Image of JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing! JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
    12/19/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Special Kind of Love
    With a title like that, a book better be about anal, or it can GTFO.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    12/20/08

    @Jessica Hussein Lovejoy loves Decapitatey Wayne Peterson: Mr. JB and I play that game with song lyrics.
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    11/15/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Campaign For Pam
    Wait, we Northerners think Southerners have long hair? I thought long hair on dudes was a progressive thing in the 70s.


    And yes, I just chose to pick up on the most boring bit of that whole thing. I can be a little nit-picky.

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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    11/15/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Campaign For Pam
    What's with the shrimp-colored theme going on around here, is what I'd like to know. And, in case anyone was wondering, my porn screen-name would be Jezebel Fairhill. Hmmmmm.....


    *goin to see an attorney about changin my name brb*

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    11/15/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Campaign For Pam
    Pam is such a Peggy.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    11/14/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Campaign For Pam
    Yeah, my pornstar name is Spatter Southshore.


    Make of that what you will.

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    11/15/08

    @tscheese: I'm Gypsy Longmeadow.

    You're clearly more altporn than I.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    11/14/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Campaign For Pam
    Six cigarettes a week? I know people that smoke that in a lunch break!
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11/14/08

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Campaign For Pam
    Ha, Lex! Lex was also an early Cherry Ames love interest, before Wade the Fighter Pilot Turned Auto Mechanic came on the scene. Maybe that was my problem all along. She wanted to be a nurse more than she wanted to get laid; I wanted to get laid more than I wanted to be a nurse.


    Maybe we should also do some of these from the 80's. I have a few Silhouette teenage editions from 1983 or so that would be amusing.

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    11/14/08

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: OMG Cherry Ames!!! My mom turned me on to those when I was a little girl - if I remember right SHE read them when she was a little girl (are they that old?). I loved Cherry with her crisp nurse's uniform. Sigh. Ah, I love nostalgia.
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    11/14/08

    @largirl: That's how I got into them! And yes, they are that old--the first few are from the forties and take her through nursing school and straight into being an Army nurse during WWII. They're fresh in my mind because I've just been re-reading them. They are good autumn books. The vast majority take place between August and Christmas. I don't think Helen Wells liked springtime much.
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    Image of SisterMaryMartha SisterMaryMartha
    11/14/08

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: Bless it.
    I have a deep an abiding love for Cherry Ames books. She always had some hot man lurking. I really wanted her to get married to one- and still have a career. But I suppose that was considered impossible at the time, which is why she always leaving the men behind.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11/14/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: I always wanted that for her too. The new man in every volume...it was all such a tease! I think it may have given me the impression that there would be handsome, charming, intelligent young men everywhere I went when I grew up, too. Maybe in the forties, there were. In the nineties? Overgrown man-boys, at best.
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