Dear Miss Manners:
I am 40 years old, and by a series of unfortunate events and three broken engagements in the past two decades, still a single woman. This is not necessarily a status that I celebrate.
And so another single person writes in to explain…
See the letter from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803382.html