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  • Yesterday, a Circuit Court Judge in Arkansas issued an order striking down an Arkansas law that prohibits any unmarried person who has a non-platonic relationship with someone they live with from either adopting or fostering a child.

    2010 April « The View From LL2 2010

  • After three and a half years of singledom I am happy to admit that sometimes all I really want is a big non-platonic manly hug.

    one 2007

  • He doesn't have to be concerned about a non-platonic kiss from ScaryDan though.

    miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2006

  • TheGoodDan gave me a non-platonic kiss when he dropped me off.

    miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2005

  • And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy.

    Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Kind of gives me the heebee jeebees to think of them in a non-platonic way.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • It tackles head-on some profound and controversial issues, such as the complexities of a developing non-platonic relationship between a grown woman and a teenage boy.

    AvaxHome RSS: Mindsnatcher 2009

  • Perhaps it was a disturbance in the philotic web, or maybe a magical Jungian archetype of a dirty rag as a gas cap that resonated in their minds, but whatever it was, they decided to keep in touch online and get to know each other better, with clear non-platonic overtones.

    Yammering 2009

  • But unless and until that day comes, keeping it a secret is simply a matter of not telling anyone about one another and not being together in non-platonic ways in places where others could discover you.

    Ask MetaFilter 2009

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