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Eewww. I din't sign on for *that.
Nor did the lovely Anna, I'll wager. 
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I din't sign on for *that.
For better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health ...
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But what about for sex change?  Edit: P.S.--what about, say, a husband who undergoes sex-change surgery? No divorce or annulment. Afterwards, are they legally still "man and wife", or husband and wife?
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I actually know a couple like that, Jackie. He (the former he) was a lawyer where I used to work. He came back from an extended convalescence after surgery of a theretofore unrevealed type) and announced that he was no long John, he was Mary. (not real names.) Interestingly, he went to Canada to have the surgery done and it cost a small fortune.
(S)he was married to a woman from the Netherlands and had two kids in college. So far as I know they are still married. WAY too weird for me.
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They're still married??? Wow, that surprises me.
I'm not sure how healthy that is for the wife, unless she was a closet lesbian and this only worked in her favour.
I saw a documentary on this type of sex-change operation and the spouses all seemed to be rather traumatized by the whole thing. Some came to accept it, but others not at all.
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If I remember correctly from reading "Conundrum", Jan Morris was married at the time of her op. I have a vague idea she and her wife from when she was a man (John? Morris) got divorced but it was all done fairly amicably and they remained good friends.
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Sorry AnnaS... ...una vez más; Corcovado
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...una vez más;
You'd better be sorry, musick. That's Spanish. 
Fr Steve, I'd like to nominate this as the thread with the most digressions in recent memory (which for me is about 5 minutes).
We have several recordings of Corcovado; Faldage just doesn't know it. To drop a name, I worked with Jobim for a few years in Rio in the 80s editing a series of bilingual song books. I think they're out of print now, as, sadly, so is he.
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M'Lady Anna,
First of all I would like to say, I am back in this part of our wonderful forum due to another member whom let me know what was going on in here.
I would like to say that I can understand a tendency to gravitate toward that which our elders have done before us, especially in the aspect of becoming set in our own ways and ideals. And I accept your apology in that aspect. The part that I find myself having difficulty accepting and understanding is the reasoning behind your, as I see it, ambuscade.
May haps this is where my pet peeves lie, for it bothers me when people can not leave things in the past. But as you have pointed out, and I believe is part of my problem as well, we can both be sometime-prescriptivist pre-curmudgeon in out lives. And yes, I know that was poor use of the english language, but alas I confess to having a distinct lack of energy at the moment due to a lack of sleep.
I acquiesce to you M'Lady and truly appreciate your apology. All that is left to say is, Pax?
Edit: Fixed the HTML code.
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Fr Steve, I'd like to nominate this as the thread with the most digressions in recent memory (which for me is about 5 minutes).
One of the (many) things I have never quite grasped about this board and its customs is the criticism leveled at those who take a thread off on a tangent.
Some folks apologize when they do so. Some folks kvetch at those who do so.
In what sense is this a bit different from what happens in conversation all the time? I want to talk about the ball game. You want to talk about what you had for supper last night. We end up talking about the weather.
Same deal here, eh?
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