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CONSIDER SWEDEN, where about 47 percent of all households have just one resident (compared to about 28 percent in the United States), or more specifically Stockholm, wher a staggering 60 percent of all dwellings are occupied by someone who lives alone. Like the United States, Sweden has a deep-seated cultural legacy of individualism and self reliance... its role as an ultra-modern nation, a place where citizens would benefit from their nations collective prosperity and the privileges it afforded..."Do you know why so many of us live a lone?" ... He quickly answers his own question: "Because we can." p213-216