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Monogamy has outlived usefulness? Not so, says long-married man.(Daily Break)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20060425
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Byline: JACEY ECKHART

"Whoso loves believes the impossible ."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

MONOGAMY WON'T LAST. I know this because I read it in no less a journal than Foreign Policy last summer. And, man, it's been stickin' in my craw ever since. Those experts listed monogamy as a convention that has outlived its usefulness. They predict that monogamy, like the British monarchy and American political parties and the euro, will not even exist 35 years from now.

That's harsh. Because 35 years from now I had intended to be celebrating my 53rd wedding anniversary, ...

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