Meetings and Greetings

Several interesting events happened this week:

My week was dominated by emails from Scotland, Texas and Chicago. A very sweet guy from Chicago offered to fly to New York to meet up with me and take me to the symphony. I don't know if this date is actually going to happen. The man from Scotland invited me to come and visit him on the way to Denmark, but I don't think that is very likely to happen either. A lovely man in Pennsylvania sent me samples of his love poetry which he writes for a card company (I think).

A very surprising email came from an Editor of an Osaka newspaper in Osaka, Japan. The gentleman was apparently used to the West, having lived 8 years here, and was eager to get an American wife or maybe he meant a westernized wife... He even called me from Japan, and suggested that I come to Japan to visit him. He would supply the ticket. It was pretty amazing to me, and I politely declined since I did not know him. He wanted to call me every Saturday, but I did not think that it was a good idea with this kind of long distance dating so I think that he finally got discouraged.

Again this week, a good number of women emailed me to thank me for my example and for being an inspiration to them to conquer bad fortunate and make a whole new life for myself, and one particularly lovely girl who also happened to live here on Manhattan sent me such an inspirational email that I gave her my telephone number and asked her to call me. We met in the East Village to talk about Brazil, she is the Anchor Woman for Mayor Bloomberg's Portuguese broadcast to Brazil about financial news. She was charming, fun and very adorable and we resolved right then and there to meet from time to time to discuss our dates and learn from each other's mistakes. That was a fun evening!

The week ended on a very lovely note. I met a charming gentleman on a date with whom I feel that I made a very good connection, and I am rather excited about the possibilities of new beginnings, but caution is the watch word. Proceed slowly and cautiously. So far, so good. Keep tuned in ....