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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Mating Season
By guest blogger Susan Kuchinskas Spring is in full bloom in northern California. The cherry trees have their wedding-lace blossoms on, while the plums and peaches are already gestating the rosy orbs of late summer. In the park, shapely legs and bare shoulders are turning heads. It's mating season. My friend is thinking about mating, too. It's been five years since she lost her partner of 28 years, and for the first time, she's met someone she likes. Their first date went well, and now she's trying not to plummet into that state of anxious obsessive desire that we call falling in love. I encourage her to take it slow. "As I say in my book," I say ponderously, and we both laugh. (That's the first time I get to say that, it's great.) But the book does say it, and the science supports it: "Take it slow. You don't even need to decide if you're really dating." Great advice, but it's hard to take. Everything in the media tells us we should fall in love immediately, today, at fi...
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