Charlie

The Vietnamese wife seemed determined to prevent him from having any contact, not only with his ex-wife and children, but even with his mother and four siblings. He lived to be 91, but none of them except the persistent daughter ever saw him again, and she only saw him once. I imagine that the Vietnamese wife felt very insecure in America, especially in the early days when she and her own family were completely dependent on him.

No, he did not. His daughter eventually attempted a reconciliation with her father after her mother and both of her brothers had died, but the Vietnamese wife obstructed it.

The Vietnam War had an unusual effect on my family. My uncle moved to Saigon to work for the US military in Saigon during the war. He moved his wife and children from Michigan to Hawaii so he would be closer to them for R&R visits. However, in Saigon he met a young Vietnamese woman, and he left his wife and children for her. When the war ended he moved her and her entire immediate family to Texas, where they all lived together for the rest of his life. He was also estranged from our whole family for the rest of his life.

In case you are wondering how "vintage" these photos are, I remember encountering Bruno on the Fire Island ferry when he looked like that fifty years ago.

Except that "provider" has typically been used as the person who supports someone else financially ("Her husband was a good provider", etc.), whereas the roles are financially reversed when applied to an advertiser on RM.

I used to keep a list of every escort I hired, the date and place of the initial meeting, and the number of subsequent meetings. Anything else about the escort and the meeting is in the narrative daily journal I have kept for the past 50 years. (My first hire was in 1978, and the last was in 2011.)

Talk about red flags flying!

Since he is based in Sydney, it's strange that he does not give any dates for his time in Palm Springs. The "map me" function also gives only the generic default position for Palm Springs, not an actual location for him there, which means that he will probably only do out-calls during his stay.

I am going to remove the magazines from the container next to the toilet, and will no longer take the Sunday newspaper with me when I go to the bathroom.

Probably just an abbreviation for "versatile."

Another one whose location on "map me" is City Hall. However, since he only does out-calls, it doesn't really matter.

I'm wondering if there is more than one "Mike Masters." The guy in the ad with the color pictures could be 38, but that would have made him a teenager when the original posts on this site about a mature escort named "Mike Masters" were made.

We probably weren't neighbors, unless it was a really long time ago--I lived there from 1968 to 1970.

Although she was born in New York City, my grandmother always liked to tell people she was "British," because her father had been born and raised in Bermuda.

I have had only a couple of dozen in my entire life, and they were all strictly therapeutic. I have never had one that involved sexual stimulation.

29th Street brings back memories for me--I used to live on it between 8th and 9th Aves. Yes, it was a conveniently short walk from the old Everard Baths on 28th.

Strangely enough, I knew another gay guy named Steve Holt many years before this one was born, even assuming that he is not the age he claims to be in his ad.

This ad is very confusing. In one place he says he lives in Center City Philadelphia, but in other parts of the ad he says he lives in Rehoboth, DE, which is about 100 miles farther south, and when asked about travel, he says he only does that about twice a month--but in which direction?

Motorcycle escort for a parade.

I never did either. Now I live in SoCal, but I still won't root for them.

From the map on his website, he seems to be at Pacifica Assisted Living facility. How convenient for the residents!

Lucky is in NYC and needs a massage. He went to Times Square Spa to get one from Philip, but discovered that Philip is no longer there. He wants to know if anyone here knows what has become of Philip. Is he available anywhere else in the city? (I am acting as intermediary because he says his ipad won't let him post.)

Had dinner with Lucky and his spouse last night while we watched the opening game. However, I had to leave at the end of the 9th inning with the score tied, so when I got home and turned on the TV again, I had missed the historic grand slam win at the end of the the 10th.

Sounds like you want a patron or a sponsor rather than a sugar daddy, who expects more in return from his sugar baby.

Fire Island and P-town were both a part of my life when I was much younger, so I don't know how much they may have changed in the past half century. However, my sense of the two was that FI (i.e., Cherry Grove) was strictly a resort, whereas P-town was an actual community, where a large percentage of the residents and visitors happened to be gay. I went to Cherry Grove to have sex; I went to P-town to socialize.