Ask any unmarried, overworked middle-class person looking for love, and he or she will tell you it all seems hopeless. Finding Mr or Miss Right is harder than ever. In the 1950s, the median age of marriage for women in the United States was 20, and it was not much more for men. Most well-educated women met their husbands at university, where there was an ample supply of suitable partners. Men could do the same, or find a wife in the suburbs where they grew up, or marry a girl in the office.
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