Bio: I am coming to this site a bit late in the game. I spent decades in a working and living situation where I was forced to be extremely careful about being gay or having gay sex or a gay relationship. I was not exactly an embodiment of chastity, but I was very close. I had virtually no privacy and lived and worked in the same place, a type of environment which involved a small portion of 1% of the American population. I made a number of wrong-headed decisions and simple mistakes and years went by without my changing anything or moving on to something new and somewhere else. I now am free of the past but realize how much I missed along the way. I would assume that my age is a distinct disadvantage, though I am hoping to find some guys for whom that will not be an impediment. I am basically kind, generous, thoughtful, well-educated, shy and quiet, and finacially independent. I am living in the "outside world" for the first time in 30 years. I removed from storage a ton of my deceased parents' furniture and art collection and with what my brothers supplied, I am pretty well situated. But meeting gay men is more difficult than I had anticipated, which is why I am on this site. I tired of anonymous pickups and escorts. I have no means of sending a photo at the moment, probably something I really need to be able to do. I am free to live anywhere and would like to relocate. I am a bit deficient in self-confidence here, and if anyone actually responds, I won't be surprised--I will be amazed.