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Tell me specifically what the assignment entails; I may be able to help. I’m an academician at heart. Love it! Loved school all the way through my Master’s Degree and I have a “lifelong passion for learning” which was instilled into me from my golden four undergraduate years at Rhodes College - www.rhodes.edu

Let me know the specifics. To research it for a bit would be “fun” for me, as strange as that may seem to some others. =)

Frank

Simple solution: RUN, not walk, from this older guy. He’s married and in a committed and legal marriage. There is no telling what could happen if he divorced his current wife and got together with you. There are plenty of other guys out there. There is more than one guy in this world with whom you can fall in love; he’s single and interested in you and closer to your age. That’s much more appropriate in my opinion.

Frank

If I were you (and a girl), I’d try to “touch base” with him from time to time (and not every day ; would seem intrusive and like “pounding” him); being his friend and, as the weeks go by, chatting with him just a bit more frequently (not much) each week, and increasing it to almost every day (for just five to ten minutes or so at most) could “make him see the light” with this other girl and relinquish her and he could ask you out again. To start (in confrontational manner or seeingly so..and too often at the beginning.. could damage your friendship or acquaintanceship with him completely.

That’s my advice.

Frank

I agree; if she’s his boyfriend, I wouldn’t “mess up” the friendship with the guy. Women come and go; friends are golden. Hang on to your friend, man; they are true treasures in life. I think, if she knows whom you are at all, she’d have great disdain for you and you’d lose your friendship with your friend (the guy); all three would “lose” then.

Take care. Be wise. Take it from a little older guy like me; I know about that “stuff,” first-hand from the past.

I agree with AmeliaWatson12; I think it’s *67 before your number (if not sure, call your phone service carrier on look in the front of the phone book - landline); if it is a cell phone, that is easy: just go to “settings,” and scroll to Network Services (Settings) and select “hide number,” and then after the call, switch back to “show number” or similar. Each mobile phone carrier has it’s own method; you can call customer service (free) and ask the person that answers; he/she will be happy to help you - or if you want to read that boring manual, it will tell you. (YUCK - how boring is a manual about a cell phone or anything else).

Thx,
Frank