Dating: The Old-Fashioned Path to Love and Romance

Dating: The Old-Fashioned Path to Love and Romance
On a date, you're there to get to know each other, to listen as well as to speak. GaudiLab/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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OK. I agree with some of you right off the bat. What’s a 70-year-old guy doing giving advice about dating and courtship? In words made famous by the man we now call president, “Come on, man!”

Agreed in part. I am “old, and grey, and full of sleep,” as the poet Yeats once wrote of a former heartthrob, and though I’m not yet King Lear doddering through a wilderness of memories, I am well on my way.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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