Last week's question: Longtime single people in places like Brooklyn and San Francisco are now practicing "sologamy" and marrying themselves in full ceremonies. If a sologamist were to write a book on how to sustain a successful marriage with yourself, what could it be titled?
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THE WINNER: "Living La Vida Loner"
Claude Offenbacher, Eugene, Ore.
SECOND PLACE: "Seeing I to I"
Lee Silverman, Morgantown, W. Va.
THIRD PLACE: "One is Not the Loneliest Number"
LeRoy Gaintner, Paradise Valley, Ariz
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Joy of Self"
Dave Sauvé, Placerville, Calif.
"Wholly Me-trimony"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.
"I’m OK–I’m OK"
David Perler, New York City
"I-fidelity"
Glen E. Rainsley, Union, Maine
"Me, Myself, and I Do"
Roseann Hassey, Cincinnati
"Marriage for Solemates"
Pierre Hart, Etowah, N.C.
"Ten Things You Like About You"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Maintaining I Contact"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"Self Satisfied"
Frank Carroll, Ocala, Fla.
"Just Be Yourself"
John Chapman, Austin, Texas
"Til Death Do I Part"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
"There Is an I in Marriage"
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, N.Y.
"An I for an I"
Pam Paschke, Boca Raton, Fla.
"The Art Of Self-Compromise"
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Va.
"To Thine Own Self, Be True"
Jill Anderson, River Forest, Ill.
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