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   cleokaya said, 9 months ago

   the big picture.

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   Margueritem said, 9 months ago

   Poor Lawrence.

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   Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

   From yesterday:
   JDGPro says:

   Gweedo. Weren’t they tempted to mimic “eight is enough”?
   .
   I think it was the other way around since Joe and Natalie got together in the early ’70s.

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   AliKzam said, 9 months ago

   Aw, hug.

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   Macushlalondra said, 9 months ago

   She means she wants to find you a daddy, Lawrence.

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   shades_is_here said, 9 months ago

   Lawrence only understands only what a 5 or six year old understands for he is not thinking of a new daddy or even for his mom’s sex life but for him self.

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   ninmas said, 9 months ago

   lawrence, you wouldn’t want to be the one to be stuck massaging her feet!

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   summerdog said, 9 months ago

   Gosh Connie, where is it written that you need a man at your side to be happy?

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   plus4 said, 9 months ago

   I think I’m starting to see why Lawrence turned out the way he did. His upbringing is fitting the common pattern of weak/dysfunctional mom & absent (or distant or abusive) dad.

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    stpatme said, 9 months ago

    “You have a partner”? NO, she has a HUSBAND. It is NOT a dirty word. The fact that Connie avoids the very use of the word shows that she is not ready for, or able to have, that kind of relationship.

    summerdog says:

    “Gosh Connie, where is it written that you need a man at your side to be happy?”

    Nowhere summerdog, but it might work fine for some of us, maybe even Phil! ;-)

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    plus4 said, 9 months ago

    stpatme says:

    << “You have a partner”? NO, she has a HUSBAND. It is NOT a dirty word. The fact that Connie avoids the very use of the word shows that she is not ready for, or able to have, that kind of relationship. >>

    Good observation. I wonder if that subtle little touch (Connie’s telling choice of word) was deliberate on L.J.’s part.

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    panacea1477 said, 9 months ago

    No, you don’t NEED a “partner”, husband, whatever…but it sure is NICE! =)

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    summerdog said, 9 months ago

    Well, I can tell this is a re-done strip, so I’d say that LJ stuck in “partner” to be politicaly correct for today’s times. I’ll just bet that the original one would say “husband”.

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    bluetopazcrystal said, 9 months ago

    plus4 says:

    I think I’m starting to see why Lawrence turned out the way he did. His upbringing is fitting the common pattern of weak/dysfunctional mom & absent (or distant or abusive) dad.

    People who are gay do not “turn out that way” they just are. Probably from birth, In this day and age that stupid belief still exists! ARRRGHHHH!

15. 

    Wildmustang1262 said, 9 months ago

    Touché!

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    swolf48110 said, 9 months ago

    Excellant point, kid! She’s a self-centered ding-bat!

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    MaxStarmanJones said, 9 months ago

    Plus 4 and ST – You both beat me to it. I always wondered if Lynn intentionally portrayed the dysfunctional family pattern that causes gay behavior or was it just a subliminal acceptance of the fact?

    Whatever the reason, I truly feel sorry for every “Lawrence” that has had to go through this, and wish there were some way I could help them.

    Connie is a very selfish person who should be ashamed of herself.

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    keabu1 said, 9 months ago

    In the third panel, Connie looks like the adult Liz

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    lakita_lover said, 9 months ago

    If heterosexual orientation is considered something that most people are born with, it makes perfect sense to believe that homosexuals are also born that way. (Or do all you heterosexual people claiming it does think you would have turned out gay/lesbian had you been raised in a less stable household?) Saying sexual orientation is a result of dysfunctional families is like saying left-handed people come from dysfunctional families just because most of the population in born right-handed and that is considered the norm. I know plenty of straight people from dysfunctional families and plenty of homosexuals from normal families. There is no statistically evidence correlating sexual orientation with what kind of family someone grew up in.

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    cleokaya said, 9 months ago

    I agree with you lakita-lover. With all the dysfunctional families out there today if that was enough to have bearing on one’s sexual orientation, heterosexuals would rapidly be heading to minority status.

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    keabu1 said, 9 months ago

    I’m completely opposite of bluetopazcrystal…I can’t believe people believe homosexuals are born that way.

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    dead-eye-bill said, 9 months ago

    must be a bunch of liberal democrats read this strip

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    keabu1 said, 9 months ago

    no deadeye…they all read doonsbury