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"   When Eat, Pray, Love, the memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, came out four years ago, the book immediately found a place on most Cosmo staffers&amp;#039; bookshelves. After all, it&amp;#039;s the ultimate love story\u2014woman and guy break up, woman breaks down, woman travels the world, woman finds love again. And now the follow-up Committed is out and getting buzz. Committed picks up where Gilbert left off\u2014in love with Felipe, the Brazilian she met in Indonesia and promised never to marry since her last relationship had ended in a really painful divorce. But then Felipe finds out he either has to get hitched or be deported. Gilbert decides to face her fear of exchanging vows by researching the institution. Though the story isn&amp;#039;t as engaging as EPL, she does uncover some interesting tidbits about love and marriage. Here are some of the ones that jumped out at us: Women with college educations and careers who marry relatively late in life are the most likely candidates to stay married. The more tightly woven a couple is within a community of friends and family, the stronger their marriage will be. Marriages based on the traditional idea that women should do all the household chores are less strong and less happy that relationships where the husband helps out around the home. With divorce rates so high, do you think getting married is still a smart idea? Or does marriage feel like an old tradition that needs to be retired? Photo courtesy of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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