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&lt;p&gt;I became extremely interested in Freemasonry about 12 years ago, and tried to find out how to join for some time without success.&amp;nbsp; I am American and my wife is British and we were living in The United States at the time but were forced to move back to England when my wife’s father became ill.&amp;nbsp; Now, my interest and desire to join is even stronger and my wife and I are hoping to move back to America in the next couple of years and I was wondering if anyone had advice on steps I could start taking now in preparation for joining when I return &#45; I don’t yet know where we will be living.&amp;nbsp; I have done a great deal of research over the years and am sure I would make an excellent candidate.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thank you.
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Good afternoon Gentlemen&#8230;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I just spent 30 minutes introducing myself only to have it disappear when I tried to submit. Let&#8217;s try again with a condensed version.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First, I wanted to say how much I&#8217;ve enjoyed &#8220;lurking&#8221; on this forum the last several days. I&#8217;ve learned a great deal&#8230;.thank you.&lt;br /&gt;
Second, I wanted to briefly introduce myself as I&#8217;ll have many, many questions as time goes on. &lt;br /&gt;
I live in a little &#8216;burb just outside of Cleveland, Oh.&lt;br /&gt;
I&#8217;m happily married, raising a seven year old boy and trying to make it as a middle aged freshman college student. Yeah&#8230;I&#8217;m exhausted. &lt;br /&gt;
I&#8217;m also one of those &#8220;Gen X&#8221; types that took damn near forever to growup.&lt;br /&gt;
Sure, I&#8217;ve got an embarrassing past but I can see a bright future.&lt;br /&gt;
The reason I mention all this is to explain why I&#8217;m not actively petitioning my local lodge.&lt;br /&gt;
As a student, there&#8217;s the simple issue of money..or lack thereof.&lt;br /&gt;
I&#8217;m also a little concerned about references&#8230;not so much bad references but, as a bit of a loner, I&#8217;m a little concerned about coming up with enough references to qualify.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus, I intend to spend the next year or so rectifying that.&lt;br /&gt;
Would it be appropriate to approach a lodge without the intention of petitioning but rather just to intoduce myself and state my intentions?&lt;br /&gt;
There is no doubt that I want to petition. I know it&#8217;s the right thing to do, not only for myself but for my family and my late grandfather.&lt;br /&gt;
Long story short&#8230;I was raised by my grandfather, a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason. He was very, very proud of his affiliation and although he never came right out and asked me to join..I knew what it would have meant to him if I had.&lt;br /&gt;
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He didn&#8217;t live long enough to see me finally get it together and died thinking he had failed me. He didn&#8217;t..I failed him.&lt;br /&gt;
I know he&#8217;s up there somewhere and I want the chance to finally make him proud of his &#8220;son&#8221;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyway&#8230;I&#8217;m sorry for being so long winded.&lt;br /&gt;
I look forward to speaking with some of you and continuing my education.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And yes I know this post is outside the scope of the forum, and no&#8230;I don&#8217;t care.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font&#45;size:20px;&quot;&gt;GO PATRIOTS!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I am curious why the Freemasons still exclude women as members, especially when we live in a time where women are very educated and highly skilled members of society.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cordially,&lt;br /&gt;
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