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Songs for Going Solo

Author Eric Klinenberg compiles the perfect playlist for people who don't need a Valentine to be perfectly happy

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Tom Waits, 'Better Off Without a Wife'

Tom Waits has been married for 32 years now, but on the great 1975 album Nighthawks at the Diner, he toasted "to the bachelors and the Bowery Bums/ And those who feel that they're the only ones/ Who are better off without a wife." It's a great testament to the urban underworld, and to Tom's wild years.

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