Reply #46: Zero.

[KamaAina]

Never felt the need. Ah, who am I kidding? I'm just a big ol' wuss.

2. Check back with me after I acquire an SO (assuming the Internets haven't been replaced by universal mental telepathy by then).

3. We used to joke that our family was so small we could hold reunions in a phone booth, back when there were phone booths. Basically there's Mom in NYC, a great-aunt in Seattle, and yours truly -- not really conducive to working out together.

4. It will approach both forms of equality asymptotically (for you non-math freaks, that means it will gradually approach full equality, getting closer and closer over time, but never quite getting there).

5. Never having been engaged, I will defer to Dear Prudence from Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2164369/fr/flyout

Maybe she can help.

6. Brown. And getting quite ratty, too, I might add.