write an original short story beginning with I never expected this for you
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There seems to be a movement on the internet (based on one blog that I read) where people voluntarily stay single for so many days in order to discover things about themselves. A noble sacrifice, but one I never had to make, because I was involuntarily single for a very, very long time. And I don’t mean dating but never landing a relationship, like the girls in Sex and the City. I mean totally, wholly celibate. I will say this, though–I did learn a lot about myself in those years.
When I was single, people always tried to encourage me with the old gem of “The right guy is out there for you.” This is not a particularly helpful statement, although it is always well intentioned. In my more bitter moments, my retort would be “But how am I going to find him? What if he’s halfway across the world?” As it happened, he was.