Happy Single People Will Not Stay in Their Place, Not Even for a Day

Valentine’s Day stories were about happy single people and platonic love

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
4 min readFeb 15

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Photo by Sithamshu Manoj on Unsplash

It is Valentine’s Day, 2023, and I received this email from a very wise single person, Stephanie Dillemuth of Arlington, Virginia:

“I just had a friend text me her condolences because she “knows today is…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. Author of “Singled Out.” Harvard PhD www.belladepaulo.com