I have lived no cloistered life and hold in contempt the wise man who has not lived and the scholar who will not share. There have been many wiser men than I, but few have traveled as much road. I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope. Or not, either way.

If you don't type the words "love is strange" in the first sentence of your message, I won't reply.


A beautiful, funny, charismatic young lady with excellent manners. A damoiselle of the highest caliber, able to recite long poems of her own composition entirely from memory. A maenad who is well versed in the latest research in math and science, and able to laugh about it. You should be multilingual, capable of adapting to new cultures at short notice. You don't have to like children but they must like you.