Thanks - I am proud of Mariko and the way she has done things really for me.
Attraction is a strange thing - too deep for a short message! Mariko has a great personality and is not a typical Japanese woman - her attitudes have become more and more open. I am no psychologist but the inner workings of the mind often seem to become visible in the external person... getting philosophical in my old age.
Please don't take this the wrong way - but I am amazed at what you say about your age - you think in a very interesting, experienced and sophisticated way - and, yes, I know that is not just the realm of the over-40s and 50s!!!!