Exotic, but realistic, jaded, weary but somewhat hopeful...Someone told me that the listings on Craigslist is far better than the BS found on match.com and eharmony.com but I don't know...a quick scan through these ads looks like the detritus and dross of humanity lurketh beneath methinks...

So having said that, I'll give anything a shot at least once and see what happens. I'm not looking for marriage, 2.5 kids, the house in the suburbs, following "The Formula", saving up for retirement and examining joint investments and essentially having a life punctuated by events dictated by the Hallmark Corporation or Edward Jones retirement ads.

Maybe we'll grow old together, maybe we won't but I'd much rather be with someone who is willing to elope off to Madagascar and get married on a deserted beach overlooking the Indian Ocean, or at least be open to it.
We're both attractive romantics and idealists at heart, we both left-of-center vote Liberal, or Green, and we're both addicted to overseas traveling as well as having a healthy interest and love in what this world and life can give us.

Me: Exotic beauty who is conservative in her lifestyle but very liberal in her politics, still believes in saying "Please" and "Thank you" and that there is still something to be said for good old fashioned manners. Well-read, well-traveled and well-educated, a big fan of chaos theory and the works of Ryszard Kapucinski.

You: Well-adjusted professional, over 5'11, lean, not looking for your mother, on the same frequency, like going to rock concerts and enjoy spicy food. Your heart is still open to the universe and you have made peace with your past. No exes or kids hanging about, life is a clean slate and you're looking for someone who also is a clean slate. Late 30's to mid 40's, while you may have experienced the cynical side to life (who hasn't?), you still see the possibilities to it also and are willing to give it a go.

I don't have a lot of faith in these things especially for "those looking for love" or that "you can make love happen", it seems it happens when you're not looking and usually unexpectedly, when you're ready for it. Either that or it's purely a game of statistics, your guess is as good as mine. Hence why I'm also posting in Paris.

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a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16rich.html"The conservative (post-election) Crack-Up./a In the wake of their recent defeats, many American conservatives have formed a a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2203800/entry/2203801/"circular firing squad/a, with a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111802886.html?hpid=opinionsbox1"some arguing that the GOP needs a little less GOD/a, while others say it's just a matter of a href="http://www.modbee.com/opinion/national/story/490761.html"returning to their roots/a. At this point, it looks like the party is headed for a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_coming_conservative_crackup"civil war/a and a href="http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/2124"electoral disaster/a. Democrats and liberals may be a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-sarlin/schadenfreude-its-not-jus_b_141583.html"enjoying/a the a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/9/42629/9175"show/a these days, but what does the future a href="http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/05/obama-election-republicans-oped-cx_pr_1105ryan.html"hold for the GOP/a?/a a href="http://www.metafilter.com/61690/The-Conservative-CrackUp"(Previously.)/a br / It should be added that a href="http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/nov/17/00008/"some/a a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9651882/"people/a a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/03/the-conservative-crackup.php"saw/a a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/06/26/conservative-crack-up-cont/"this/a a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0112-36.htm"coming/a.

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