Old Maid?
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Empowered Woman
By Marsha Porter

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
~Barbara de Angelis

By the time I turned twenty-eight, I had been teaching for seven years, held a master's degree in education and was buying a home. I was surprised by my home-buying experience. As I signed my loan documents as an "unmarried woman," I somehow felt I'd failed. I'd been so busy racking up accomplishments, I forgot to get married.

Handling this minor oversight in my usual direct manner, I fell in love with a suave engineer. We met in the fruit section of the supermarket — he in an expensive suit and me in my typical weekend attire: sweatpants and a T-shirt. I noticed the waves in his thick black hair and caught his twinkling eyes studying either me or the grapes I was holding up for closer inspection. Embarrassed by my sloppy appearance, I moved on, only to run into him in several other aisles. Finally, he vanished, and I checked out, glad that my Oreos had been concealed from the well-dressed man by the three rolls of paper towels I was buying. (Keep reading)