I watched as the beautiful young woman slowly unbuttoned her blouse, revealing a lacy black bra and creamy white skin. Maybe I should have turned away, or gone into the outer room, but I didn’t. Instead, I sat there in my darkened apartment, gazing across the air shaft at my sexy young neighbor.

I’ve always been shy. Although I’d had a couple of relationships in the small Southern city where I grew up, approaching women had never been easy for me. My work involves the artificial-intelligence aspects of computers. so even there I’m pretty much solitary — me and the computers.

Moving to New York City last summer didn’t help. A job offer in my field was just too good to pass by, and I came to the Big Apple. Everything in New York seemed to move so fast. I’d been in the city... Read More