Medicine: Vital Statistics

Always on the lookout for odd facts of life, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s researchers last week turned up the following vital statistics concerning the preferred matrimonial partners of the widowed and the divorced:

Widowers marry 1) spinsters, 2) widows, 3) divorcées.

Widows marry 1) widowers, 2) bachelors, 3) divorcés.

Divorced men marry 1) spinsters, 2) divorcées, 3) widows.

Divorced women greatly prefer to marry bachelors. For alternate choice it is a toss-up between widowers and divorcés.

The much-married tend to mate with the much-married.

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