Hi SummerBob, I'm Dave in Detroit. Seems like we have some parallels. The Pinay that I intend to marry is still in the Philippines, on Mindanao, the biggest southern island. I'm 54 & she's soon to be 23 but far more mature at her age than I was, she's an ate/manang (eldest daughter/sister) from a small village. We met online at a global social networking free site, so the IMBR does not apply. My intentions are (funds dependent) is to go there after my current computer project finishes around May or June of 2010. I call her almost daily, & had talked with her father, 2 of her 10 aunts & uncles, 2 of her numerous cousins, & at least 6 girlfriends of hers as well.
You and I with only some slight disagreements seem to think along the same lines on several of the threads I believe. I've applied to 'befriend' you.