“If I could go back in time and deliver one short message to my 17-year-old university freshman self, that would be it.”
Damn, that’s hysterical, but bummer for you. I was lucky, my attraction was wired for overseas from the start. Our boys want nothing to do with American Woman, that’s for sure!
There are plenty of conservative American women worth marrying, but your advice to your sons should improve their odds in the great romantic crapshoot.