{"id":772,"date":"2007-08-22T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:41:08","slug":"dating-advice-from-my-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Dating Advice From My Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She emails from Australia:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Get a nice hair cut and a new outfit. Be nice when you ditch the old  ones, they talk to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you find your friends in the same boat? I think young women want to get married less and less? I read a Japanese article on the BBC News some time ago. Japanese girls are buying pets and marrying later, if at all. I am just finalizing my assignment on the history of the stigma of illegitimacy in Australia. The things we have to read about family and marriage and divorce and de facto relationships show how things have changed. 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