in the conversation. She is gorgeous, among other things, and can have any man she desires. I am not trashing myself by saying she has better options than me. That's just reality. I wanted so much to believe this perfect woman -- burdened only by occasional flashes of brutal anger, as you have seen -- would be with me
>forever. Such a beautiful vision. Alas, not to be. Better to have loved and lost, right? Yeah, right.

I dated some beauty queens back in the day. They were merely conquests though, and I found that most of them had an inflated sense of importance, probably due to all the guys fighting over them.

Well, I married a very atttractive woman, who is much better than me, in most ways. Some might call her - Superwoman, for putting up with me and my ways. The bottom line though, is she is a quality person, but never thought she was "all that". You would do well to find a woman who is more grounded, than beautiful. Those beauty queens are fun for a minute, but they are a pain in the long run.

My grandfather told me, more than once, "son, a woman is like a streetcar - miss one, catch another." Yeah, I know, he wasn't very sensative.<g> But, he was fairly accurate. The same goes for men and women.

I was with my son, at the mall one day when he was about 13, you know that age when most boys start to get even more attracted to girls, and I sat him down on a bench. I told him to pick an attractive girl out of the crowd and watch her until she was out of sight. Then, I said, see if you can find another who is just as attractive. We did this for about 15 minutes before I told him what my grandfather had told me. The next thing I told him was that guys are initially drawn to women by their looks, and there are thousands of women who can be viewed. Picking one who has good character is the hard part. I think he understood the lesson, but only time will tell. Mike, you might want to go to the mall....