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Old Maid 'He did it. I said yes and checked my watch. 7.22p.m. I sneak a pen out of my purse and write the time down on the palm of my hand, in what I hope is a nonchalant fashion. I am excited and at the same time I feel there is a possibility of an inquiry. He didn't kneel. It's unlikely I would marry someone who did. Exhilaration. Alsó something darker: a sense of triumph. It is primal, furtive; my ovaries cracking cheap champagne. I win. Those two words; that's exactly how I feel. Happy, but not in an I Knew It All Along way. Definitely in a Contestant Who Has Won in The Final Round Despite Major Setbacks way. I am thirty-six years of age.' Suzanne Finnamore lives in Northern California with her husband and their son, Pablo.