Steve Smith:  

Life I have lived in five states, Louisiana, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, and a brief stay in Texas. With the exception of my stint in Dallas, all of my adult life has been in the greater St. Louis area, primarily University City. Since high school I have had several professions, I once fancied myself as a mechanic and auto body repairman, later became a Pricing/Cost Analyst, a Computer Programmer/Analyst (mainframe COBOL), and have made a transition into being a Dot Net Application Developer. In 2016, at age 62, I married my partner of then seven years. My main regrets in life are that I wasn't able to allow myself to be who I am or so long and that I never was able to adopt children. In the past there was so much bias against single men as adoptive parents. Although at our age we would not adopt an infant, I still hold out some hope that we may be able to adopt a child from the Philippines, which is my spouse's native country. Sometimes we never envision our lives turning out as they do and yet the do turn out that way. Never could I have imagined back in 1965 when my parents bought our family home, that 52 years later I would be living there once again. My spouse and I lived here with my elderly widowed father until he passed away in June of 2018. My mother passed away in 2011. Now it just the two of us and our four-legge...Expand for more