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Will I ever get married?

By Nyambura Maina

I am fast approaching 40 and unlucky in love. The last relationship I had ended after a three-month engagement. My fiancÈ complained I was domineering. I am used to doing things for myself. My mother says I am too rigid and that my standards are set too high for any man to meet. I am slowly giving up hope and beginning to accept that I shall end up an old, lonely spinster. Should I settle for less just so that I can be a wife?

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