And a beautiful voice, I have an 8 track of hers still.

@David1955 I know this sounds smug and elitist, but most people in Iowa, where I live, are not smart or educated enough to get any kind of nuance or irony in things. Which is one reason on my dating profile on Batch, I don't list as Agnostic, since most people are too ignorant or prejudiced to get or understand what it means, and my compatible slice of the local dating pool is small enough, that I simply use the category of Spiritual, But Not Religious, even tho I know it's a cop-out.

@David1955 I used to attend a Meetup.com group for divorced and other single people like me (widowed), and I made the mistake of being honest about this last point when the group was discussing dating site profiles. I mentioned that I was Agnostic, unlike the rest of the group who pretty much all belonged to a Christian Singles Group as well on Meetup, and that I didn't list myself as Agnostic in my profile. I told them that I use the other label I mentioned above. Then one of the women in the group (it was almost all divorced women in the group and there was lots of misandry there, which the female leader of the group did nothing to discourage or confront. It was clear that men were merely to be tolerated in the group) asked me why I didn't list myself as Agnostic in my profile. I flatly told her that in my experience, most people in Iowa were too ignorant or prejudiced to understand and be open-minded about it. She then told me that she was very personally offended by that, and the rest of the women jumped in and bashed me on that. A couple months later, after some more friction, during which the group leader never stood up for me against the obvious misandry and general resentment towards males going on, the leader booted me out of the group by removing or blocking me from the group on Meetup. She was merely protecting her bread and butter, I suppose, since she had a business as a dating and relationship coach and was using the Meetup group to provide her clients and she also charged people for attending her monthly workshop sessions where she presented boilerplate obvious stuff about relationships and dating.

@David1955 Moving to get a better dating pool is easier to say than to do. Esp. when your local friends are your whole support system and you have no family to lean on for emotional support. I am stuck here.

@David1955 in multiple ways.

@creative51 Thanks for the correction. I had sought to determine whether, or not, I was a match for Michael, around donating a body part, but I was told that I was too old.

Also surprised to read that the lyrics were by Laura Nero.

@BirdMan1 Nyro. She had her own hits.
Unfortunately, I did marry Bill.

@MsKathleen
Always loved to hear her songs....

Yes, I knew that. So you "unfortunately" married Bill, andI "unfortunately" married Pat.

Also, I want to add I don't think I knew the name Laura Nyro (not really well) until I heard Elton John bringing some attention to her accomplishments, and what she meant to him, I think on Elvis Costello's tv show.

@creative51 Chicago was great so I disagree with that.

@barjoe ditto!

@creative51 I am in complete agreement.

@creative51, @MsKathleen The death of Terry Kath was big reason why