Leilehua Grad Promotes Singles Life
By Kerry Miller
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Jerusha Stewart
The self-proclaimed “last single girl in the world,” Jerusha Stewart, will bring her single-woman-mindedness with her when she promotes her new book at 4 p.m. Sunday at Borders in Waikele Center.
The 1975 Leilehua High graduate has authored The Single Girl’s Manifesta, about living the single life in today’s world.
Her visit is also a way of kicking off National Singles Week (Sept. 17-23), which began in Ohio in the 1980s as a way to honor single people and their contributions to society. NSW is typically the third week in September.
“Singles are now almost a majority in terms of households. Over a 100 million people are now single,” said Stewart, a San Francisco resident who notes that more and more people possess the attitude that being single is a good thing.
Her book is not a “marriage bashing"book, she said, but rather a way of saying that living the single life is a choice, just like getting married is a choice.
“I wrote the book because I realized that people didn’t understand that (being) single is a choice. They’re not doomed to be single. A new generation of people is saying, ‘what’s with this marriage life?’. There’s nothing you can’t do because you’re single.”
In The Single Girl’s Manifesta, Stewart shares the findings from interviews with about 200 people about their lives and how they came to be single. The overall message, she said, is:
“Live your best single life.You can make it a fabulous life instead of whining about it. It also doesn’t mean that being single is terminal. Two-thirds of people eventually get married.”
To learn more about Stewart and her book, go to her website at http://www.thelastsinglegirlintheworld.com
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