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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>ablainey@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:15
PM<BR><B>To:</B> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ExI]
Valentine's probability factor<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I just grabbed my
wife backside in a crowded Pub. The fact that I didn't get a slap preved it was
true love and that was 17 years ago.<BR>We were very different people back then
and we have both changed so much since. We still like very different things but
are fundamentally<BR>similar and we are still together.<BR>Go
figure?!?<BR><BR>If you get the basic compatability right it will work
regardless of matching up your likes and dislikes.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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id=AOLMsgPart_0_733f142c-7d70-4b21-b4ef-2c35fa3bd045><BR> <BR>Nah, it's a
perfect test of compatibility with others (the 1 in 100K or fewer of them) of
like mind. Barbara and I were boggled at the apparent unlikelihood of our having
found each other (and we talked about this right from the start)--which would
have been wildly unlikely before the internet, ExI, affordable international
travel, etc. Suddenly we had the whole English speaking population of the planet
to trawl through--rather than the workplace, university, church, club,
etc--presorted by handy detectors for IQ, personality type, unusual interests,
etc. <BR> <BR>Damien Broderick <BR><BR></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_0_733f142c-7d70-4b21-b4ef-2c35fa3bd045 --></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>