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Dora Living In Fort Lauderdale I live in Ft Lauderdale, Fl. and my social life is terrible. The women here care only about money and material things. It's impossible to find a decent woman and I have given up trying. There is a man here who owns a "marriage agency" in Colombia and he has been telling me that the ladies from Colombia are the polar opposites from the American women. He says that they care only to find a man with a good heart, a man who is loyal and sincere and has good intentions. Your net worth, height, weight, and age are not important to them. They believe that men from the US are far better than the men who live in their country. This sounds too good to be true? But what do I have to lose? Things here could not be any worse. Now its Saturday morning, June 1990 and I am in Oma"s reastaurant in Bogota, Colombia with my bi-lingual friend from home. We arrived last night after a 3 hour flight from Miami. Before I can even get a taste of my delicious Colombian coffee in in walks a gorgeous lady, dressed to the hilt, silk scarf, heels, leather jacket, and a smile one mile wide. I said to my friend "thats exactly the type woman I am looking for" and his reply was "would you like to meet her" ? . Of course I would. He proceeds to ask the waiter in Spanish something, the waiter approaches the lady and the lady glances at me and the next thing I know she is sitting at our table having coffee with us. Since we speak different languages our conversation was 3 way with a translator. I told her I was in Bogota to find a nice wife to live with me in Florida and I gave her a card from my hotel, wrote my name on the back and asked her to please call me if she was interested. I Really liked this restaurant as the food was good and there were other nice looking ladies here also. I could not believe that this happened within hours of my arrival in Bogota. In the U.S. I would never ask a lady to join me for fear of being humiliated. I think I am going to like this place. For the next 3 days I had appointments at the "agency" and met 7 additional ladies. They all had certain things in common : their skin was smooth and silky, hair was thick and healthy, they were patient as we had language problems, their eyes were clear and beautiful and they would look directly into your eyes when speaking with you. Probably most important they have beautiful legs and butts with no signs of fat anywhere. The reason for this is they walk everywhere - only a few have cars so they stay fit by walking. On day 4 my phone rings at the hotel and it is Dora, the girl I had met at the restaurant on day one. I managed to make a date with her and we were able to communicate on the most basic level. I began to spend all of my time with her and no more appointments at the "agency ". I was planning to spend 1 week in Cali and Dora encouraged me to go but I was too enamored with her to let her out of my site. The electricity was really flying.

Instead of going to Cali I took Dora to the ancient city of Villa de Leiva. The night before our trip we went to one of Bogotas elegant restaurants on top of the mountain Monserante. You arrive by taking a cable car up the side of the mountain. Before embarking they serve some wines at the base camp to get you in the mood. The cable car ride is an unforgetable experience as you rise up into the sky and look down on a city of 8,000,000 and all the lights.

Monserrate Restaurant The restaurant is very old and elegant with high ceilings and many large fireplaces. The wait staff is appropriately attired in tuxedos while the food is delicious and inexpensive by US standards. We drank champaine and ate steak and lobster and had a wonderful time at budget prices. The next morning we went to the bus station to catch a bus to Villa de Leiva. My head was banging from all the drinks we had the night before and the bus terminal was really crowded. I asked her to price a taxi instead and it was only $35 for the 3 &1/2 hour trip; The taxi was big and we had a nice ride in the back seat stopping whenever we wanted for whatever reason.

Bogota bus station When we departed this ancient city we took an "executive" bus home. They had a television up front with a taped show of Roy Rodgers the famous cowboy in English yet. I was amazed. The scenery was spectacular en route back to Bogota. This is really a beautiful country.

Decisions - decisions-decisions Soon I am flying back to my home and I am sky high the entire trip. I am madly in love and this doesn't happen to me. What happened ? How can a 49 year old conservative bachelor in less than 2 weeks fall in love "head over heels ". This lady has 2 children who I have never met and she is not divorced but separated. We have communication problems also. Now its time to worry because if it seems to good to be true it probably is. What happened to her marriage? Her husband has a PHD from Oxford and he is probably a good guy? Maybe the kids are spoiled? Will they accept and like me? Well, guess what - I am not worrying about anything because love is blind and I am in love with a typical Colombian lady. She is very feminine and always dressed up nicely, she has high cheekbones, soft skin, and she is always complimenting me about something. I am just not used to this type of lady in the US and I really like it. Every day now in the US I am sky high thinking of Dora. She has promised to come here and stay for 4 weeks as she has a tourist visa. She told me she would come in 30 days but I never even took her phone number so I had no way to contact her. I could just listen to our favorite son " Red, Red Wine" and pretend that we were together. Well one day before the 30 days were up I received a phone call from Bogota and it was her and she announced that she was arriving the next day on Aces Airline. And arrive she did with 2 large suitcases loaded to the hilt. Looks to me like she is planning to stay for awhile.

I decided to show her a real good time so we flew to San Franciso and stayed at Fishermans Warf for several days and then rented a car and headed to Reno and Lake Tahoe. This was the ultimate vacation for me being with her 24/7 convinced me that I wanted this to go on forever. We did have a few good fights and they usually involved money. I guess she was always used to guys taking good care of her and money was of no importance. If she wanted something she got it. Soon I was back home and she was on her way back to Bogota. I missed her so much that during the next 9 months I made many trips to Bogota to be with her. I met her children, a boy 12 years old and a girl 11. They were beautiful kids, unspoiled and supportive of their mothers decision to marry me. Things can't get any better than this. Soon thereafter we married in the US and became one, big, happy family.

I spent the next few days showing her around Ft Lauderdale, going to the beach and just plain being together and having a good time. She looks great every day and now I am getting even with all the average looking local girls who always seemed to give me a hard time and act like they were too good for me. I was showing them now with my gorgeous new mate that I could do better.

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