Your story made me so proud! Good work, mp. Congratulations on your inner strength as a single woman. I like how you phrased it: there's a difference between being strong and single and strong and married.
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
You've done amazingly well. You deserve the happy tears. It's these times of looking back occasionally that make you see how great the looking forward is. You've got a great future ahead of you. This isn't something you could have said three years ago, right?