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The personal accounts and interviews make this a real pageturner impossible to put down

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This book will be a revelation

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For anyone who has rebelled at the idea that dating is fun and that you simply have to be interested in dating or that you will never find happiness unless you use a dating service or encourage a long line of causal friends this book will make you feel vindicated

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Weigel is both a tremendous writer and an incisive observer of social practices

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The labor of dating the labor of loving is in a deeply unequal society deeply unequally distributed

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At the turn of the 20th century for instance many first daters were criminalized especially black women the singles bars widespread across the nation today evolved out of the public social spaces created for queer dating the free love movement of the 1960s was not unique for there was a free love movement in the 1870s after the end of the u

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There wasnt always a clear throughline from each of the chapters to the texts central thesis and weigel never makes explicit what precisely is at stake

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The answer for how to do something different is not necessarily in its pages but you can take comfort that being single isnt necessarily as bad or as personally a fault as one may think