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The price of being singleOct 21, 2015 / Jessica Gross Stocksy One researcher’s quest to end discrimination against single people. Bella DePaulo , now in her sixties, has always been single. For some time, she thought the marriage bug would bite her, until she realized it wouldn’t—and she didn’t want it to. DePaulo, who describes herself as “ single at heart ,” relishes the lifestyle. What she doesn’t love is the prejudice that single people face, from cultural stigma to discrimination at work, in the media and elsewhere. That’s why the Harvard-trained social scientist (now a project scientist at UCSB) has spent nearly two decades researching single life in America, publishing her findings in scholarly journals, in books including Singled Out , and on blogs . She explains why the pervasive negative stereotypes about single people are largely unsubstantiated, while the anecdotal prejudice is real — and so ingrained we often hardly see it. First, let’s define our terms: “singlism” and ...

I can’t hear you, I murmured back.  She swallowed, her tubed nose rasped (emphasise on her wish to be with her family. but she can’t make informed decision or her voice heard.) "I want a milo and a biscuit" (description of a long corridor pressing in) And I suddenly felt the weight of her words  but my legs kept on moving, I kept on pushing her to the operation doors. "mama It's going to be alright. You'll have as many milo and biscuits as you want later", i told her. we couldn't turn back. the family had agreed, the past painful month we struggled, and placed our hopes on this. Even though there was an improbability. we took that tiny sliver of chance fueled with prayer.  The doctors said she could last for a week  She stayed unconscious for that week She did not die in dignity She did not get to say goodbye  We did not get to say goodbye  she did not get her milo and biscuits but she couldve.  She couldve had her hour of peace in lucid pain, strengt...