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Topic: Dating Web site aim to pair those with same illness experiences

Keebler
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This is not so much a prescription but a thoughtful look at the many things to consider when seeking one's "correct" match:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35247848/ns/health-sexual_health/

Lovesick: Hooking up over a shared disease

Web sites aim to pair those with cancer, herpes, even Tourettes in common

By Brian Alexander, msnbc.com contributor
Fri., Feb. 12, 2010

An Internet entrepreneur named Ricky Durham believes he has the answer to Valentine's Day loneliness for people living with chronic diseases or health conditions: match them up with other people who either have the same conditions or are, for some reason, looking for a lover who has them.
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Durham's Prescription4Love.com promises to match you up.
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The other person may have the same issue you're facing, but is he or she an extrovert while you are an introvert? Messy while you are neat? A planner while you are spontaneous? We are more than our diseases.
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None of which is to say that people who happen to have the same chronic health concern shouldn't fall in love, necessarily, just that matchmaking based on disease is no panacea.

So if this Valentine's Day prompts you to sign up for a dating Web site, you might want to mention your work, family, your ``I Love Your Lucy'' addiction, your antipathy for Lady Gaga. . . .

Talking about your latest lab results can wait.

- Full article at link above.

Web link: http://www.prescription4love.com/

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This article just caught my eye on MSNBC - as we enter yet another Valentine's Weekend, oh, my!

I am not exactly recommending nor discouraging this, as I don't know all about them or their screening and protection filters - but anyone interested can check all that out. Just thought it to be an article of social interest with some good thought included in the full article.
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[ 02-12-2010, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: Keebler ]

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abigail
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Wow, GREAT place. I might sign up.

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ping
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An idea turned reality, long overdue. Thanks for posting Keebler.

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