The further I read, the more I wanted to believe it was real

Keywords: Diaries of a single man , Blogging , Diarist , diary , funny , humor , humour , Oban , Scotland , writing

An announcement in a recent edition of the Oban Times caught my eye. Sitting alongside adverts for funeral directors and a memorial sculptor was “a respectable matrimonial notice.” This wasn’t someone declaring the happy news of their marriage. Rather, it belonged to a 32-year-old American lady who was besotted with the idea of marrying a Scotsman and had placed a personal ad in the local newspaper.

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