Competing with a memory

I am obsessed with an old man. He was born in 1949. I was born in 1973. The 24-year difference doesn't bother me at all. I've been with someone who was 38 when I was only 21. It didn't end well. He treated me like an option. I was also with a guy who was my age and he treated me like an option, too. So, it's not the age... it's the guy! I don't know this man personally, but I've read enough about him to know that he isn't like those guys. When he falls in love, it's deep. I want that, but at the same time, I'm not sure he is still capable of doing it. I don't know if he can still fall in love. He is currently single, he's never been married. He's had girlfriends and one of them bore him a child - a daughter. Another one only stayed with him for a year and a few months - then she died of cancer. Of the two, the second one owned him - body and soul. I think she still does even thoug...