More to Elstan
Dear [Elstan],
Pushing you around in a wheelchair. Hmmmm. Oh yes. 
I remember now. [I used to offer to do this for her when she was my teacher back in high school.] Nothing wrong with YOUR memory. I suppose that back then, the offer to be your attendant was my round-about way of letting you know that I believed that doing most things with you would be fun, even pushing you around in the chair. But you shouldn’t have to worry about your legs giving out for quite some time. You don’t look at all like you’re 58. I’d place you at no more than 38 if I didn’t know better. Well done, [Elstan]. You must take remarkable care of yourself.
On the subject of visiting more often: Well, I’m in Philly now, and from there it is much easier to get to Pittsburgh, than it was from Dayton, Ohio. Perhaps this could be arranged. Tad and several other friends are asking me to come back later this year. So it just might happen.
You remember that time, 13 years ago when we met again after 9 years at Giant Eagle on Centre? I think I sent you a letter after that, asking you out. And over the next few months, right after I moved to Dayton, we did go out a couple times. I wanted you to know that those were very special, fond memories for me, even though we subsequently lost touch.
I’ve often wondered, why I didn’t arrange more time for us to spend together than I did. Back then however, career concerns, especially having just started my career in computers, probably blotted out most romantic aspirations, and the fact that I had to work in Dayton made it difficult to get to Pittsburgh as often as I know I would have wanted to come, if you and I had started hanging out frequently.
Well, things are very different now. I am established in the career and most of the work these days comes pretty easily. And I’m not tied to Dayton any longer. Though I still work for the same Dayton-based [company], as long as I have access to a pager, a couple phone lines, and my laptop, I can work just about anywhere, and so have made Philadelphia my home for the past few years while directing the efforts of several others in Dayton. I’ve dated a few Philly ladies during that time. But nothing lasting ever developed.
I would like to renew the request I made in 1988, that we go out together again, and get better acquainted. I have always felt that if the timing was right, you and I might develop something very special. Now don’t read too much into this. I really have no designs on the outcome of this little experiment. Success of the experiment does not necessarily mean marriage or a house with a white picket fence in the suburbs. But I would like to spend some time together and see what potential for romance there might be (if any). There. You have my “number.” Comments? How woud you like to spend some summer evenings getting to know each other again this year?
