By CNN on 09/22/2017
“… (CNN)It wasn’t long ago that being single after a certain age was considered a recipe for lifelong misery. Up until 1970, the average woman married before she was legally old enough to have a drink at her wedding, and the average man married at 23. A woman still single at the ripe old age of 26 was what the Japanese call Christmas Cake — past her pull date and destined to spoil. A man not married by the end of his 20s was considered irresponsible, if not “deviant.” …”
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