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Gina:

Gene: Forty, and she's my boss.

Gina:

Gene: C'mon, Gina, have a heart!

Gina:

Gene: Forty-five.

Gina: Congratulations. You're in the ballpark. At the very least, you need someone who shares your cultural references. Someone who knows, say, your music.

Gene: That's ridiculous. I could learn to like Eating Pumpkins, or whatever crap they listen to.

Gina: You seem to believe that, to a man of middle age, there is something more desirable in having a substantially younger romantic partner. You do not believe there is something fundamentally disreputable in this?

Gene: When Joe Torre starting dating his wife, he was 41 and she was 23. Everyone loves Joe Torre, even people who hate the Yankees. There is nothing disreputable about Joe Torre!

Gina: That's a pathetic argument.

Gene: Okay, it is.

Gina:

Gene: Listen, if a man categorically eliminates young women as potential romantic partners, he is guilty of blatant age discrimination. That is unconscionable. I'm surprised that you, as a feminist and a humanist and an American, would condone it.

Gina:

Gene: Okay, that's pathetic.

Gene Weingarten's e-mail address is weingarten@washpost.com.

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