"I wish that next fall we'd both go to the same college, and that while we're there, we'd belong to a wedded commune," Jon stated.
"What! A commune! I thought the last of those died out after the sixties," Karyn objected.
"Well, there's gonna be one near our college," Jon stated confidently.
"And who says I'm gonna run around naked and live outside and have sex with twenty different guys, and orgies with forty people, or whatever?" Karyn protested.
"It doesn't have to be like that," Jon reassured her. "It's just group living. It could be a big co-ed house off campus, like a combination fraternity and sorority. I wish you'd keep an open mind to this, Karyn, and I say that without touching the stone."
"Why does it have to be wedded? And how would groups of more than two people get married?"
"Maybe its an earth wedding, even if it's not a legal wedding. It could take the place of initiation. And maybe it has to be a wedding in order to satisfy some rule against unmarried men and women living together. C'mon, Karyn; give it a chance. We'd have a place to call home and a group of people to belong to. We have plenty of time to work out the details."
"Like which twenty women are going to be your wives?" Karyn probed darkly.
For the rest of the school year, and all summer, Jon and Karyn planned the details of a group living environment they could both accept. Then, when September came around
