Dear Elsa,

Most recently, I became acquainted with a younger woman. I know what you must be thinking: another dirty old man with a mid-life crisis. Maybe you are thinking that; please accept my apology if my conjecture is unfounded or otherwise incorrect.

The deal is I really like her. I do not love her but I think she is lovable, I don’t know, she might not be, I am being presumptuous… or maybe not. I feel this connection with her – connections are sorta good, aren’t they?

Elsa, I am pretty sure I am smitten with her. You know, I really like her but I don’t know shit about astrology, my chart and of course, her chart. I do know something about cosmology but that is not astrology, is it? Never mind!

So Elsa, if I really like this woman in a multiple of ways, then, how would you proceed? This is not my first rodeo, Elsa, but my first rodeo with her. I often use metaphors and analogies of course, but I do not think of her as a rodeo or any thing like that. In your opinion, and I realize that my information here has been rather vague, what would you do if you were me? I know you can’t of course be me – that is ridiculous – but if you were, like in a science fiction thing, what would you do?

Signed,
Perfectly Puzzled