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    Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life
    Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life
    Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life
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    Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life

    By Kellen Brooks

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    Unsuccessfully Single exposes the conventional dating ideas that hamper a successfully single life, by delivering content in a straightforward, satirical, and comical manner.
    You won't be disappointed!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKellen Brooks
    Release dateFeb 23, 2016
    ISBN9780988803022
    Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life

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      Unsuccessfully Single - Kellen Brooks

      Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life

      Unsuccessfully Single

      Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life

      Unsuccessfully Single:

      Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life

      Written Kellen Brooks

      Edited by Marcus Cylar

      Kellen Brooks

      2016 ©

      Unsuccessfully Single: Sure Fire Ways to Sabotage Your Single Life.

      Copyright © 2016 by Kellen Brooks

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      First Printing: 2016

      ISBN: 978-0-9888030-1-5

      www.KellenBrooks.com

      Visit www.KellenBrooks.com or www.UnsuccessfullySingle.com to purchase more copies, eBook, and audio versions of the book.

      Ordering Information:

      Special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, educators, and others. For details, contact the publisher www.KellenBrooks.com or www.UnsuccessfullySingle.com

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my maternal and paternal grandparents, who combine for over 100 years of marriage! You all have modeled successful marriage for so many others and me. You're marital success is rare and I thank you for your example.

      I also owe special thanks to my mother, family, and friends who listened to the ideas for this book and encouraged me towards its completion.

      Your support is invaluable!

      Contents

      Before You Read…

      Introduction

      1. A Terrible Example

      2. Passive and Pursued

      3. Trumping

      4. Ignore Family and Friends

      5. Shhh! It’s a Secret

      6. It’s Our Anniversary! Not really

      7. Just Friends…Sorta

      8. Ride the Close Bus

      9. The Mosaic Mate

      10. Practice Being Married

      11. Leave Your Thoughts Untamed

      12. Drop Your standards

      13. Get Obsessed with Marriage

      14. Media Stalk Your Ex

      15. Let Go of Your Dreams

      16. Watch for the Trap!

      Appendix A: Kissing the Night Away!

      Appendix B: Real Talk

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      Before You Read…

      I believe you are in for an exciting ride as you read through this short yet power-packed book! But before you read, there are few things you should know. This book (with the exception of what you’re reading now, Appendix A: Kiss the Night Away and Appendix B: Real Talk) is written as satire. My goal is to expose the absurdity of conventional dating practices, ranging from moderate to extreme, hence the writing style. The names of the individuals are completely fictional, but the stories are real.

      Each section presents a concept that would pose a threat to a healthy single life and should be viewed as things you should not do concerning your single life and dating relationships. I invite you to come up with your own dating

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