The author, who has chosen to remain anonymous, is a middle-class divorced man in search of a prospective soul mate. While he has achieved some of this educational and professional goals to a degree, he does not enjoy the well-rounded life that many married people, or divorced people with children, enjoy. The man named Ronald Carter Burns in this non-fictional account has traveled to many places in the world from time to time. He is intrigued by foreign languages and cultures, as well as science, notably astronomy. Ronald has a disturbing tendency to empathize in excess and to trust other people and their motives in ways that can be damaging to him personally. While he is well informed in many areas, he sometimes lacks the common sense and astuteness required by today\’s 4595 technologically and financially based society. These traits play a significant role in his being duped in an all-too4596 common tragic online romance scenario.