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Radio 4,1 min

How to survive being single at parties

Woman's Hour

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Why should we pity single women when they are perfectly happy and empowered in their lives? Emily Hill is an author who is 36 and happily single. She says that to survive dinner parties, single women often have to have a whole repertoire of responses to ignorant questions.

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