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Showing posts with label singlehood. Show all posts

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Too Late to Take Her Out


            Being single can be discouraging if you want to marry. Sometimes, if one is not careful, discouragement can lead to bitterness.
            I can’t help but think about the old story of the elderly woman who passed away.
            Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, "They wouldn't take me out while I was alive; I don't want them to take me out when I'm dead.”