On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:51:58 +0900, al@privacy.ne.jp (Al) brought down
from the Mount tablets inscribed:

><mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote:
>> Here's a radical idea; just ask 'em out.
>
>Right. Starting with the obvious is easily overlooked, and in many cases
>it's worth mentioning what you suggest.
>
>On the other hand, I mentioned already that my social life is actually
>rather good, and I am lucky enough to have intelligent, good-looking,
>and charming female friends who, as it appears, don't mind spending time
>with me or communicating with me via keitai mail or computer mail
>(becoming friends is not something that happens in one day - I am
>talking about people I have known ranging from a few months to several
>years).
>
>So what's the matter, then? Call it "lack of an appropriate language".
>Not having grown up in this country, having come here not as a young JET
>but at what some might think of as crusty old age, and, having lived
>here until recently with my GF from "back home", I've had neither the
>opportunity nor the need to talk with anybody in Japanese about
>relationship issues.
>
>Circumstances have changed, and ignorance is annoying...

You have a circuitous way of talking a lot without saying very much,
so I'll need clarification here.

Do I understand correctly that you are specifically looking for women
who are a decade or two younger than yourself?




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