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"My sister Jen, who lives in L.A., opened her mailbox last weekend and found a magazine that she&amp;amp;#8217;d never heard of or subscribed to. It was called Singular. It&amp;amp;#8217;s an entire magazine dedicated to being single in L.A. An entire mag! My sister said, &amp;amp;#8220;This thing came in the mail addressed to me! How did they find me??&amp;amp;#8221;She sent me the editor&amp;amp;#8217;s letter, which sounded insecure: &amp;amp;#8220;We are showing the world who single people really are&amp;amp;#133;We are proof that single people can lead satisfying, fulfilling lives&amp;amp;#133;&amp;amp;#8221; Yeah, I know. What world said single people were misunderstood or pitied? This magazine reminds me of National Singles Week. If you are happy being single, then you don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to celebrate it. If you don&amp;amp;#8217;t notice that you&amp;amp;#8217;re single, then you don&amp;amp;#8217;t need a magazine to be sent to your house to remind you. It&amp;amp;#8217;s the people who are unhappy or insecure about being single that need to talk about it, call attention to it, act happy, etc. Off-topic but not totally: Here&amp;#x27;s me and Theo this weekend in Brooklyn. My friends and I had a stoop sale. Now, look closely at my crow&amp;#x27;s feet. Holy crap! I blame that on the four years I spent going to college in L.A. and my life before that in San Diego. The other thing is, if the magazine is celebrating single life in Los Angeles, why are there articles on how to find romance and where to meet men? I don&amp;amp;#8217;t get it. Check out their &amp;amp;#8220;online community for successful L.A. singles&amp;amp;#8221; at SingularCity.com. (And what about the single people who are NOT successful, huh? What about us?) What do you think of this magazine? How would you feel if you received it in the mail? I once got an anonymous letter telling me to lose weight. I also got a handwritten postcard telling me the USC Trojans suck, and a typed note warning me to leave my old job. So I know how it feels to be sent things anonymously from people you might not know, or to get information you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t ask for. It&amp;amp;#8217;s upsetting. P.S. Some of the Singles Week rallying is about getting insurance rates and benefits equal to the rates that married people pay, plus all of those family discounts that single people supposedly subsidize. Now that I can get behind. More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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