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The boy-meets-girl tale of the gender divide is related at seven times in history. Each time in history is firstly given a social context (through well-known quotes or pictographs), then a male and a female perspective. The boy-girl story remains similar at each time, varying with the culture and the technical capability of the society within which the story occurs. The times used are prehistoric "e;somewhere,"e; early Hebrew, English Middle Ages, English industrial revolution, 1970s Australia, present-day USA, and future Holland. The extrapolation to a genderless world of hermaphrodites (a future Holland) ends with failure. The seven tales are bookended (prologue and epilogue) with a Christian context.