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December 1999: The romance section of my newsletters seem to get the most comment, despite the extreme lack of action over the years. Go figure. Over the last three years there has actually been something to write about, though.

Right: Diana and I standing among Mother's flowers in June of 1998.


My first serious romance in years, with all the thrill, joy, and agony, was with Diana Fowler. We've been friends for years, acquaintances since early in college and closer after she left in the late '80s. Several years ago she moved back to northern Indiana, where her parents were from and where she was born. So a long-distance friendship turned into a long-distance romance. We both had our hangups ­ mine was basically an unwillingness to make a commitment ­ and we eventually agreed to give up on the romance and try to rescue the friendship. That has been a rough road as well, but I think we've turned a corner and may actually come out of it all still very good friends.

Since then I've done some dating without having a "girlfriend". Dancing has been an opportunity to meet lots of attractive women, some of them available. I realize that I've reached another milestone in aging. I've found myself very attracted to women who have daughters old enough to be attractive, and even potentially datable, as well. If I were to marry one of the mothers, I could possibly skip parenthood and go directly to becoming a grandpa!

Above Left: Beth and daughter Lauren at Gotta Dance in Asheville, North Carolina. Right: Deanna in the foreground with daughter, Mia, highlighted, at the Florida Dance Rhapsody. All lovely, legally-of-age women, and also delightful dancers. This is not to say available, you understand, certainly not to me -- but the concept is novel and marks another milestone into my getting "on up there" in age, if not maturity.


Marriage doesn't seem likely anytime soon, though. I've still got many philosophical weeds to mow. With me searching for my basic life direction and a basis for my ethics and morality, it will be very challenging to find someone suitable to share those things over what's left of a lifetime. But, you never know. For now it's kind of fun to date again!



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