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    Three Degrees of Passion
    Three Degrees of Passion
    Three Degrees of Passion
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    Three Degrees of Passion

    By TJ Seitz

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    A short story about love and relationships from three points of view

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTJ Seitz
    Release dateOct 29, 2011
    ISBN9781465843517
    Three Degrees of Passion
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    TJ Seitz

    On the surface Mr. Seitz appears to be a quintessential middle aged male. TJ is married to his HS sweetheart and lives with his family in a suburban split level house located on the outskirts of Rochester, NY. Seitz has spend the majority of his professional career working as an information technology specialist in the fields of education, criminal justice/law enforcement and procurement. While working full time, TJ also attended college part time (and sometimes full time). To keep himself (relatively speaking) sane he majored and minored in non-technology subjects, earning a BA in English with a writing concentration from Saint John Fisher College and a MA in Social Policy from Empire State College. As an undergraduate student TJ attended writing classes taught by George Saunders and Judith Kitchen (though neither teacher would probably remember him). Distractions like kicking virtual wasp’s nests on BITNET Listservs (predecessors to social networking sites like Facebook), soliciting donations for a Panty Alter fund and hanging out with a heavily medicated professional drummer named Dirtbag interfered with TJ’s ability to write anything particularly noteworthy for either class. He also attended a workshop at the Omega Institute mentored by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood. In reality the stable full time jobs have been serving as functional fronts for TJ’s secret life as a writer. They provided him with money to pay his bills and experiential material to write about. The down side of working and going to college was that he did not have a lot of time to devote to writing and publishing. Adding a problematic first marriage, babies, a divorce, a few bouts with unemployment and colon cancer to the mix did not help much either. TJ is currently working on several writing projects/ideas and recently took a graduate writing class proctored by James Whorton. Mr. Seitz's essays and letters have been printed in both local and national publications. His poetry has been published both in the United States and England.

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      Three Degrees of Passion - TJ Seitz

      Three Degrees of Passion

      T.J. Seitz

      Copyright 2011 by T.J. Seitz

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      It’s not a good idea to try to define vague concepts such as love. They are too subjective and highly dependant on an individual’s conscious and subconscious interpretation or feelings.

      Everyone knows the cliché picture of love that troubadours sing praises to and inspires poets to compose but if one looks closer more people experience or understand love in a more unique and personalized manner. To some love can be as warped as an abusive relationship; others believe that love can be a one way unreciprocated relationship. An upheld promise or commitment such as marriage vows is considered a form of love and then there is the notion that true love is just being able to accept and support what is without judgment or expectation. These understandings only fall under the romantic side of the concept. It gets more complicated when blood and family get thrown into the mix because it’s hard to deny the truth of being related to someone. People can lie but not their DNA. Marriage is the intermingling of blood and choice.

      With love comes intimacy. Intimacy is the bond or connection be it close or shared between two individuals. It can take the obvious form of a relationship but can also be something like an experience (such as attending a school, working at the same place or fighting a war together) or religion/belief.

      Passion is how deep and meaningful the intimate connection between two people runs. Lack of passion means the connection is weak and/or obligatory and lots of passion in a relationship usually means that connection runs strong. The grey area in between indifference and zeal is the most confusing kind of passion because it gives us lots to think about.

      First Degree

      Ron is 43 years old. He is of average height and weight. Is clean shaven with short curly brown hair, which is specked with grey on the sides and slightly thinning on the top. His eyes are brown. He used to wear glasses but had surgery last year to correct his vision. At work Ron wears polo shirts and slacks. At home he likes to wear flannel shirts and jeans. He is pretty quiet and could easily exit in a large crowd of people unnoticed because he is not a

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