Quirkyalone movement
Founder of the Quirkyalone movement and author of Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics
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Sasha Cagen
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FROM Sasha Cagen
Which Way, L.A.?
What Are the Consequences of Going Solo? Remember when living alone carried something of a stigma? According to the latest census , those days are gone. Nearly half of adult Americans are single and nearly a third of all households have just one resident. Thirty-one million Americans live alone, almost eight times as many as in 1950. Are all these "singletons," as they're called, happy and healthy, or lonely and isolated?
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Living Alone: What Are the Consequences of Going Solo? Remember when living alone carried something of a stigma? Well, according to the latest census , those days are gone. Nearly half of adult Americans are single and nearly a third of all households have just one resident. Thirty-one million Americans live alone, almost eight times as many as in 1950. Are all these "singletons," as they're called, happy and healthy, or lonely and isolated?
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