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It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year to Not Have Family

More and more Americans are single and childless. This is why the holidays are great for us.

Meghan Daum
GEN
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7 min readDec 20, 2019

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“I“Im so sorry you have no family,” an old friend said to me this fall. We were having coffee, catching up after many years while I was visiting her city. She made the…

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Meghan Daum
GEN
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