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　　Hypothetically, we can divide people into TWO categories:

　　The FIRST are those who, for some strange reason, have an archetypal obsession to be the equivalent of 100% covered in latex, 100% of the time. These are the "Deep" Rubberists.

　　Oh, they understand that this is just not practical in the real world. This is a story of someone who tries to make it so, anyway.) It's just a 'lifelong urge' they all share. It's an inward journey that is not a threat to anyone. It may or may not have a sexual character.

There may be only a few tens of thousands of bona-fide Deep Rubberists on the planet. (This is an 'educated' guess.)

The SECOND kind are all of the rest of the people in the world. All billions and billions of them. Odds are that you are in this group. Sorry. ;-(

Seriously, If you do not have a rubber fetish, you will probably be wasting your time with this story. You cannot possibly grok the dynamics of fetish, even though you may think you do. You are certainly welcome to try, of course. There's probably nothing here for you, and you will very likely not understand or benefit from it. Caveat Emptor.

If you do have a rubber fetish, it is my hope that this epistolary parable will help you find a transcendent sense of Purpose and Meaning in your life by learning to approach your fetish as a "practice." This takes fetish way beyond sex. I call this Latexistentialism.

This is a story with a plot, characters, and a setting, but it is also a "teaching story" which offers a 'Rubber-osophy' for a rubber-centric lifestyle. Note the basic principles are not gender- or orientation-specific.

I particularly want to thank Dark, Dino, LatexLadyII, MissRubberE, Morton, Sealed, SlipperySeal, Takiem and others too numerous to mention for their infectious enthusiasm for the RubberNautic lifestyle. I also want to thank ALL of the members of the Int'l Assoc. of Rubberists (Rubberist.Net) from 1998-2021. (It's gone now.)

Their spirits fertilize, flavor, and catalyze this work.

I have written it for them.

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