Seniorfriendfinder: Seniors still dating after all these years
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Linda Maybury is happy and in love these days with her "geezer guy." But the 65-year-old from Port Charlotte used to date the old-fashioned way -- blindly.Her last blind date, a few years ago, paired her with a man who kept asking her why she wore her hair short and acted "really weird" at dinner."Afterward, he insisted on walking me to my car. He said he was a gentleman," she said. "Then he says to me,...
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Kathy and Jackson Hertogs, both 52, met in the fourth grade. He delivered her first kiss behind a carport near Stonestown in San Francisco in the sixth grade, then, her family moved away.Life went on. Through marriage, children and divorce, she always wondered what happened to him. He never married, but always told people about "this girl from elementary school" when they asked about his first love. One day while clicking around on Classmates.com,...
Seniorfriendfinder: @ HOME / Getting an Earful From Readers
ONE OF THE good things about writing this column is getting feedback from readers, most of whom, it must be said, know a great deal more than I do about the subject at hand. A few months ago, when I wrote about a Web site, "The Unofficial Guide to Riding the Long Island Rail Road," (http://geocities.com/mailnride) I got an earful. Peter Haynes of Bayport, who runs a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to improving railroad performance, the LIRR Commuters Campaign,...
Seniorfriendfinder: Seniors still dating after all these years
Search for love, companionship never ends
Linda Maybury is happy and in love these days with her "geezer guy." But the 65-year-old from Port Charlotte used to date the old-fashioned way -- blindly.Her last blind date, a few years ago, paired her with a man who kept asking her why she wore her hair short and acted "really weird" at dinner."Afterward, he insisted on walking me to my car. He said he was a gentleman," she said. "Then he says to me,...
Seniorfriendfinder: @ HOME / Seniors Set Their Sites on Romance
WHEN ROSE SORDILLO'S three daughters chipped in and bought her a new computer for her 74th birthday last May, they also gave her some free advice: "Don't get in trouble, Ma!" Sordillo didn't exactly get in trouble. But the Deer Park woman whose marriage ended in divorce more than 20 years ago, is about to wed a man she met online almost a year to the day she opened that new PC. "I got on there and I thought it was...
