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Retired Bandleader Seeks a Duet · Box 1526

Gentleman, 66 · New Orleans, LA · Gentlemen Seeking Ladies · Featured notice

For forty years I counted off the tempo for other people's first dances. Now I would like one of my own. I still play trumpet on Sunday afternoons, cook a gumbo that has made grown men weep and keep my shoes polished out of pure habit.

I am a widower, a grandfather of three and a believer that the best things in life are slow: red beans, river boats and courtship. I would like to correspond with a lady who loves music, laughs from the belly and does not mind a man who hums while he writes. Tell me your favorite song and why — I will tell you mine.

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