02-24-2008, 06:09 PM
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pixie of the wood
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,575
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i think i see the problem. connotation
it's just a piece of paper.
just does not mean no big deal...like when you're trying to get your kid to try something new -- "you like cheese and bread right? well this is just both together. try it"
just means merely, as in nothing more than. this "piece of paper" - to many who even have them - means so much less to them than does the actuality of their lives together that its value as a lasting or binding contract is about as powerful as words on a chalkboard. even silly. so to say "why bother" is to say i don't need anyone's ok, and i don't need to pay a "fee" just to make my relationship "official"; it's "official" to us, 'nuff said.
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