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Date Posted: 07:55:44 04/24/02 Wed
Author: Islandgirl
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A real-life version of Mulder and Scully

One of the biggest arguments the noromos used to make against the MSR becoming romantic/sexual in nature seemed to go something like this: "Government agents are discouraged from getting romantically involved with other agents. It would be unprofessional and keep them from doing their job. There are probably rules against it." I always thought this was a particularly silly argument in regard to Mulder and Scully -- they broke rules *constantly* in every other area, so why would they be sticklers for doing things by the book in regard to their love life?
It now turns out that, while it may be discouraged, apparently real-life governmental agencies don't even have hard-and-fast rules against romantic involvement between their agents. The most recent issue of "Newsweek" has an article on Shannon Spann, the widow of Johnny (Mike) Spann, the CIA agent who was killed in Afghanistan in November. She is also a CIA agent. She and her husband met during their training period.
So, the good news is that in real life government agents can and do fall in love with each other, get married and have kids together. The bad news is that for Shannon Spann, her husband's death is permanent; he won't turn out to be alive just in time for TV sweeps.

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