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If I turn on my television, or open up a magazine, or see a billboard on the highway, it becomes apparent to me that the “American Dream” is still alive and well in our country. With consumers buying fifty thousand dollar Hummers, trendy clothing taking cities by storm, and contestants winning hundreds of thousands of dollars on “reality” T.V. shows it’s more than apparent that our society is deeply in love with our “wants”. Everyone has them, but it seems as though in American today those wants are never ending. To have the perfect job, the perfect car (or more aptly these days truck/SUV), the perfect house is to have almost everything. I say almost with the deepest conviction as it is only almost that you have completed that “American Dream” that everyone longs for because you have yet to find the perfect mate. But do you really want that? Maybe you don’t. It seems as though there is an increasing contradiction in American society that almost pleads with people to create this façade of an American dream with both the perfect mate, spouse, or lover and the need to be your own individual. But can you have both? Is it possible to be with someone and yet still be your own person? Can you be committed to someon