'Quirkyalones' celebrate lack of attachment
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- As millions of American couples marked the Valentine's Day weekend with flowers and candle-lit dinners, a group of independent women who call themselves quirkyalones defiantly celebrated their lack of attachment.
"Quirkyalones have high ideals," said Sasha Cagen, the publisher of a small magazine who kicked off the quirkyalone movement three years ago in an essay about being single.
"It's about waiting and finding the right one and having faith, as opposed to going on a reality dating show and expecting, you know, that you can find love generically."
As the usual intense American advertising and media hyped up a spending frenzy around Valentine's Day, Cagen and her followers proudly declared they had no date on Friday night in what they dubbed the first International Quirkyalone Day.
"The commodification of Valentine's Day struck me as kind of gross," said Reyhan Harmanci, who spent the evening with like-minded men and women at a San Francisco cafe party. "It shows a lack of imagination. I've never been into flowers anyway."
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