I know gay / les couples that have longstabding permanet relationships. They enter into contractual commitments. It is ALL legal. Some have foster children. (Most blessedly....it is contract law ...... it is not a marrage (a holy sacrament established and sanctioned bt God)

On.a different note:
The fudge - packers have done quite well my be.

In the year 2000 ... I was forced to go to an ENT specialst.
All of my cures (hydrogen peroxix, olive oil, vinegar, alcohol, vitamine C liquid, bees wax candles, and several other concoctions) refused to remove the horric "itch " inside my left year.

I can only guess that the condition developed from my propensity to stick my head under water in communal "hot tubs " to listen to the bubble jets. He treated me for candidiasis aka yeast infection in the ear.

On the way out of his office ....crowded with sniveling, hacking senior citizens ... he explained that there was epidemic influenza in the area. He wrote a pre ription for Tamalu...and said to take it at the first sigh on a high fever...when the aches and pains and a fever of 103 set in.... I drug myself to.the pharamacy and laid my 75.00 usd down.

It Worked...along with five days off woeked.

ROTH IRA were still quite new. I like Buffet 's philosohy.

Here was a product that worked on influenza.
Millions and millions of people get influenza.
They get it for a week to ten days abd move on.

I purchased 200 shares in the ROTH IRA ... almost everything.
Since its purchase in 2000 the stock has had FIVE 2 for 1 splits...in a tax free acount.
Count them out on your fingers.

My investment strategy was off base...I figured on the universiality of influenza.
The GILD   in Gilead was the discovery of access to a Virus's vulnerabilty.

okThe key to their miraculus growth was not the five day treatment for flu.....but life long
antiviral
treatment for HIV / AIDS.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

The wages of sin is death....and some of those wages have lined my pockets. I have known two who died from AIDES ....I know about eight more that are HIV position ( one a woman from an organ transplant)