This is Paul from sunny but cold South Carolina! I am taking this opportunity of having a new e-mail address to introduce myself again. A new e-mail address and a new intro for the new year. But since my new name is I Need a Sweetie I hope I will have to change that before the year is out! Grin. Because there are so many other Pauls on the lists I will call myself Paolo or Paul V. Some screen readers have trouble saying Paolo. It is pronounced Pow Low. But no hitting below the belt! I'm a single, white Italian, over 30 years old, 5 foot 6 inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes, chubby, living in Columbia South Carolina. I'm a bachelor looking for a nice young lady. I've been in and out of casual relationships but lately have been feeling that I need to be more intentional about settling down. That's where the blatant name comes from! I'm actively looking, but not desperate. I am disabled. My mother had German Measles while pregnant with me so I had birth defects, and the doctors gave my parents gloomy predictions about my survival, but there are no serious effects. I have trouble with my both my eyes (macular degeneration) but I can still see well enough to drive. Doctors aren't sure how long that will last. I may become partially or totally blind some day. Or I may never get much worse than I am now. I have a slight speech defect that makes me sound like I have a cold even when I don't. But I teach and speak in public regularly as part of my job with no ill effects. I have spina bifida but it is just a bump above my butt that makes me wear my pants a bit higher than usual and makes me look chubbier than I actually am. That's the sum total of my "disabilities." I've always been active in rights of the disabled and my friends often forget that I am disabled myself and ask me why I'm involved. Sigh. So I know what it's like to be considered one of the "invisible disability" set. I'm looking for a single, never-married, disabled woman under 40 who is an old-fashioned, traditional woman with a strong religious faith, either Roman Catholic, Protestant or Jewish and who wouldn't mind being a stay-at-home house wife. Someone feminine, under 5 foot 6 inches tall, who enjoys being romanced and the simple pleasures of life. She must be willing to visit or relocate to South Carolina. (And possibly move again with my job some day.) My hobbies are: Religious issues, people, spending time talking with friends, computers, reading, writing, drawing and painting. I'm a "single father" to a 4-year-old beagle named Mischief. She earns her name every day! I enjoy drawing portraits of friends and family, so if you have a photo or a web page with a photo, I'd love to see it. Life is a roller coaster! Let's spend the rest of the ride together! Paolo alias Paul V