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A wedding proposal is hand drawn in the snow last month at
Central Park in New York. A wedding proposal is hand drawn in
the snow last month at Central Park in… (Reuters ) January 08,
2014|By Zach Stafford, @zachstafford | For RedEye  On New Year's
Day, I spent hours fielding calls and texts from friends. Not
because they were interested in hearing about my night out or
wishing me a happy New Year. No, instead they wouldn't leave me
alone because all of them—specifically the single ones—wanted to
talk about how it seems that everyone, just everyone, is in love
and engaged. And I could only agree.  Since roughly Halloween, I
have felt that the universe is playing some mean trick on us
single people. It seems like each day, as the temperatures keep
plummeting, another person announces his or her engagement on
Facebook. And the passing of marriage equality in Illinois
definitely hasn't helped.  (Note: I admit this trend isn't so
much the universe's