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Those are beautiful. The Chicago Reader always had the best "person to person" ads, and I had experience with e.g. the New York alt-weeklies too. Witty, abstruse, non-sequiturs, and long-running conversations that you were never sure were between people who had just met as "paper names" in that column of blips. It was very internet-like, I long ago noted in retrospect.