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If you've never had a long partnership — by choice, by chance, or by circumstance — what has that shape of life given you that pairing wouldn't have?

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The freedoms, the people you've kept close, the ways you've made a home.

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What would you want anyone assuming a single life is a lesser life to understand?

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