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Single in Tampa Bay


	[Times photo: William Dunkley]
	Jacqueline Knight, 48, in the living room of her Tampa home. Knight has been single for 15 years and a year ago she got her sister's 13 year old daughter.
	Charts:
	The rise of single women
	More men marrying when they’re older
	Divorce: More women than men
	Older singles: Men in demand

Satisfied singles
By Leonora Lapeter
More of Tampa Bay's women live life without a man... and love it.
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Brothers of the unpopped question
By Leonora Lapeter
Twenty-five years ago, most men in the Tampa Bay area married by age 35. But since 1980, the number of never-married men 35 to 55 has jumped sevenfold.
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Odds long for divorced women
By Leonora Lapeter
In the Tampa Bay area, divorced women outpace divorced men by a margin of 33 percent.
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A single, older man is harder to find
By Leonora Lapeter
Single women older than 55 years old are outnumbering men in the same age range nearly by a 3 to 1 ratio.
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