Re: How to delay a moving van?



In article <Ju8s43.Iz3@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

And I am particularly
annoyed the hell out of by romance stories which depend on both
characters behaving like idiots because the idiot author can
think of no better way of keeping them apart until Chapter Last.

The central couple is _Salamander_ are kept part until Chapter last+1 by
the fact that they are somewhat shy, and used to thinking of their lives
in terms other than "search for a mate."

Where "apart" isn't inconsistent with sharing a haystack for the
night--chastely, so far as I know.

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