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It may be over after just two and a half months, but that's no reason not to kount the kost, writes Hadley Freeman It is delightfully apt that it has been announced on Halloween, the festival of the undead, that the 72-day marriage of reality TV avatar Kim Kardashian and someone whose name I've already forgotten but also began with the obligatory K has come to a totally surprising end. Really, when a woman who has sold her life and soul to the E! channel and her rent-a-husband can't make it work when cameras are filming them 24 hours a day, who can? But let's try to save ourselves from plunging into an emotional and spiritual oblivion by focusing on the facts of the formerly happy kouple. Ladies and gentlemen, Kim & Someone-Beginning-with-a-K's marriage (it's Kris), by numbers: • How many months K & K knew each other before getting engaged: 6 • How many months they were engaged: 3 • How much Kim made from the wedding thanks to magazine deals, etc: $17.9m • How much she therefore made per hour of the 72-day marrige, as calculated by New York Times' investigative journalist Don van Natta Jr: $10,358.80 • The current minimum wage in California: $8 an hour • How many hours the E! special of their wedding lasted: 4 • How many months E! spent promoting the wedding, daily: 3 • How many months they were actually married: 2½ • Kim & K's wedding cost: $10m • Donald Trump's last wedding: $1m • Price tag on one vase on K & K's wedding list: $7,500 • How much the wedding cake cost: $6,000 • How many Vera Wang wedding dresses Kim had for the wedding: 3 • How much each wedding dress cost: $20,000 • How much her mother Kris spent on a face lift for the wedding: $50,000 Hadley Freeman
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