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The Devil’s in the Details

Combing Census data of those age 15 and up as a whole, 24/7 Wall St. found 10.9 percent of Americans are divorced and not remarried, and an additional 2 percent are separated but not divorced. The company determined the “divorce capital” of each state, defined as the city with the highest percentage of divorced people. The lowest percentage of such capitals they found was in North Dakota, at 13.3 percent. The city: Devils Lake. The highest percentage capital was in New Mexico. The city: Truth or Consequences. (RC/USA Today) ...The decision point for aggrieved spouses often starts with “Tell me the Truth, or face the Consequences.”
Original Publication Date: 10 March 2019
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.

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