北京两同性恋老人举行婚礼引热议

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BBC Chinese, Jan 31, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _gay_marriage.shtml
("北京两个同性恋退休男子周三（1月30日）举行婚礼，并开放婚礼的网络直播。 * * * 这对新人中的一位老人的儿子大闹婚礼，掀翻了新房的桌子，还打走了客人，这位老人在微博上骂儿子是'畜牲，' 导致他们'很没尊严，很痛苦'")

(2) Amy Dickinson, Frisky Friendship Tests Boundaries. Ask Amy, Jan 22, 2013.
www.amydickinson.com/post/412203 ... ip-tests-boundaries

My comment: It appears that the issues among homosexuals are similar to --even the same as--those among heterosexuals.


(3) An old (read: extremely old), heterosexual couple in San Francisco.

Eve Pell, The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap. New York Times, Jan 27, 2013 (in the page Modern Love)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/2 ... ap-modern-love.html
("Sam, a Japanese-American who had been interned in the camps during World War II, worked his way through college and was happily married to his Japanese-American wife [Betty] for more than 40 years until her death")

Note:
(a) Eve Pell discusses and signs We Used to Own the Bronx. Vroman's Bookstore (Pasadena, Calif), Mar 30, 2010
http://www.vromansbookstore.com/eve-pell
("In her new memoir, journalist Pell recollects her privileged East Coast upbringing and her gradual break with the affluence and expectations of her dynastic clan. As a young woman, Pell rode horses, spent time at her grandparents' Tuxedo Park villa, and shopped at Bergdorfs with relatives called Cooky, Pookie, Goody and Tinkie (Pell was nicknamed Topsy). Following her debut, Pell went to college and eventually moved to the West Coast, where she finally escaped the overweening pressure to fill the family-standard 'snobbish foxhunting debutante' mold")

Naturally her hair was dyed.

(b) The English surname Pell has three origins:
(i) "Middle English personal name Pell, a pet form of Peter;"
(ii) "occupational name for a dealer in furs, from Middle English, Old French pel ‘skin;’" (compare English noun "pelt")
(iii) and "variant of Pill."

(c) The essay said, "I grew up as a fox-hunting debutante whose colonial New York ancestors were lords of the manor of Pelham."
(i) Pelham, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelham,_New_York
(a town in Westchester County; Pelham currently contains two independently incorporated villages: the Village of Pelham and Pelham Manor; In 1654, Thomas Pell bought the area within the present-day town from the Siwanoy Indians. He named his manor "Pelham" in honor of his tutor, Pelham Burton)
(ii) The English surname Pelham came from a place of the same name: "Pelham in Hertfordshire, so called from the Old English personal name Peotla + Old English ham ‘homestead.’"

So the surnames Pell and Pelham are not related.

(d) The essay ended by saying, "Then one day the tear duct in Sam’s right eye didn’t work, and soon his eye began to bulge."
(i) The medical term "tear duct" is
nasolacrimal duct
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasolacrimal_duct
(ii) The English adjective "lacrimal" is derived from Latin lacrima tear.
(iii) The nasolacrimal duct (one on each side--left and right) opens into nasal cavity. Please view panels 7 and 9 in

Wesley Norman, Nasal Cavity, Paranasal Sinuses, Maxillary Division of Trigeminal Nerve. In The Anatomy Lesson. Georgetown University, copyrighted in 1999.
http://home.comcast.net/~wnor/lesson9.htm
(iv) The opening is quite near the front of the person, that nasopharyngeal carcinoma  鼻咽癌
(originating from the nasopharynx  鼻咽
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasopharynx
) can be ruled out.
(v) Blocked Tear Duct; Causes. Mayo Clinic, undated
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health ... 096/DSECTION=causes
("Tumors. Nasal, sinus or lacrimal sac tumors can occur along the tear drainage system, blocking it as they grow larger")

Nasal Cancer; Also called: Cancer of the nasal cavity, Cancer of the paranasal sinus. MedlinePlus, undated.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nasalcancer.html

This is a US government website.