retrospectively, i can write an ad...

From the other side of singledom:

Wanted:
One man.
Essentials:
Strong, beautiful hands. Cheekbones. The kissing kind. Loves parks, sunsets, cats and books. Must have insatiable curiosity and lust for life.
Must be dizzyingly, madly, hopelessly beautiful to me even in the middle of a fight. (This will be tested many, many times. Final contract subject to success in these tests.)
Must play the mandolin. Must invent a language or show marked potential for such invention.

Quiet, polite, gentle, sexy as can be.

Only men with above-mentioned qualities need apply.

Back Home.

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
not knowing
how blind that I was

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere
They're in each other all along.

-- Rumi