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[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "unmarried and unattached" (or, to put in more contemporary terms,
> "single")

Back when, "unmarried" meant "never married," thereby excluding
"divorced." Not sure, but "unmarried" may have carried the
implication, "hence, a virgin," and was, therefore, inapplicable to a
divorced woman.

Uh, "divorced *person*," of course.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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