Monthly archive for November2007

Tests for Two

t’s not often I envy married people but I do begrudge them this: not having to have The Conversation. Ever again. We’re constantly reminded of the downsides to being tardy in our search for lasting love – heightened fertility risks, all the good ones are…

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A political love triangle

WE all know how it feels to have two men fighting over us: one you’ve been going out with for 11 years, the other new on the scene. You have until next weekend to decide which one you like best. It’d be easier if you…

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Depression

The number of people who’ve asked me why Charmaine Dragun took her own life… I’d never met the Channel 10 journalist but, because she was a newsreader, people assume I must have or, at the very least, understood her anguish. She was gorgeous, intelligent, in…

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Ultimatum

A friend got engaged the other day and rang me in a flurry of excitement with the happy news. ‘How did he propose?’ I ask, keen for every romantic detail. ‘He didn’t’, she responded. ‘I gave him an ultimatum.’ Don’t think for a minute those…

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