XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: spam@lindsayendell.org.uk   
      
   On 5 May 2006 21:13:25 -0700, "hschinske@mouse-potato.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"My husband in is his early 50s and has white hair. It would grow all   
   >over   
   >his face but he shaves."   
      
   I presume this was addressed to me. You need to learn how to quote   
   with Google.   
      
   >But if you were writing a novel about him, would you have the narrator   
   >say he was "very old"? It's *not* just the kids' point of view here.   
      
   When I was 19 I had a pretty old boyfriend. Very old, in comparison   
   with my friends' boyfriends. He was in his late 40s.   
   --   
   Hooray for the differently sane.   
      
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