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84 ...thankfully we've no experience with this. But yours strikes as about as sane, solid, simple counsel as can be offered. Frankly, it seems like the ideal scenario might be to be unemcumbered in this brief time of life that is so very critical, and as you note, and we've concluded, can be observed by non-participants but consumed solely by those engaged ...to the USNA. It is a unique cultural experience, and that very notion can be almost inconceivable to audiences novice to USNA or other Academy experiences. I'm hoping I'm not exaggerating or overstating in positing that notion. The further we go along in all of this the more I realize the less I can fathom of it.
So can relationships work? Of course. Examples abound although statistically it seems they are few and far between, miniscule. So generally, it's probably safe to suggest ...avoid them at every cost.
And if the cost would be too dear, then work to make it work. And that will require loads of flexibility, adjusting, commitment. Sounds simpleton, silly, supersilious. But to argue or suggest there is some formula for making something work that fails in nearly every instance, seems futile to me. What is known, if we like great odds of failure, this is fertile ground.
Now, what was the question?
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