Useful additional points, Mark. And this seems true in our increasingly
mixed world in the major cities of Canada too....
Doug
On 3-Apr-06, at 11:18 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> What I have noticed is that the friendship circles of kids then and
> now in that place and class is far more mixed than it was when I was
> their age, and the erotic isn't the glue that holds it together--it
> seems genuinely friendship and genuinely egalitarian, and there's an
> ease between them that was absent when I was 16. Which bodes well for
> the future, at least in that place and class.
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