So you're single!

the long version

"What's it feel like to be thirty, Margie?" The thirteen-year-old redhead beside me spoke suddenly. "Not any different than it felt to be twenty," I replied lightly. Marigold lifted wide amber eyes and looked deeply into mine. "Margie," she inquired pensively, "don't you wish you had a man to kiss at night? You haven't anyone, have you? Don't you wish you had?" I did an inner double-take. "Yes, Marigold," I answered truthfully. "I suppose I do." Looking up into my face, Marigold smiled again, a slow, mysterious smile. "I think every woman does," she assented softly. Then, briskly, "Not many of us are willing to admit it, though!" Margaret Clarkson, Canadian hymn-writer and poet, creative educator and author, not only admits the reality of aloneness without a marriage partner but draws from her experience of singleness to share God's ways with her. As one who has tested herself, and God, she has earned the right to be heard! -- Back cover.