(From ABC News.com -- By Buck Wolf)
Nobody sent me a card, but it's NATIONAL SINGLES WEEK -- a time for mothers, fathers and everyone else to appreciate their unmarried friends.
[Amen!]
Some people might think that National Singles Week is a bogus event created by the greeting card industry, after failing to launch Second Cousins Day.
Others might say unmarried people don't need a holiday -- they can celebrate their unyoked freedom every day of their lives.
The truth is, National Singles Week was started in Ohio back in 1984 to appreciate the growing ranks of unmarried Americans, who are now 96 million strong, or 43 percent of the U.S. population age 15 or older, according to the U.S. CENSUS BUREAU.
Why should we celebrate singlehood?
For one thing, it was once considered a shame to grow old without a spouse.
Nowadays, two out of every three single people have never wed.
Unmarried Americans deserve a day of national recognition.
Celebrate National Singles Week (09.21-09.27)
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It was only invented in Ohio, because in 1984, ESPN was only 15 years old at the time, and not legal to date. Had it been 1987, it would have been invented in Bristol. If it was '93 well...
OUCH!!!
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