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maybe i am polyamorous

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David
Dec 14, 2023
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Azizi Johari in "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" (1976)

With one exception, I haven’t been monogamous with my romantic partners since my first gay relationship in my early twenties. That one exception was a compromise with disaster: in the latter half of the same decade, I very smartly agreed to monogamy with a woman who loved to violate the terms of our non-monogamy.

You’ll be shocked to learn that trashing my values only gave her more opportunities to cheat, which she preferred to do in the shittiest ways possible.

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