This just in: I may be a liar after all. I checked with Mr. Horse after he got home today and he gently informed me that he is not 6'2", as I had previously stated. He is, in fact, only 6'1". It is still true that he shaves his head, wears a big truckeriffic beard, is covered in muscles, etc., and that our anniversary is in May, and that he is ridiculously polite to my family, his family, total strangers, etc. -- but dammit, I've gone and shot my credibility by overestimating by an inch. (Then again, so do lots of men. RIMSHOT!)
I also don't know whether he seduced me. He had, get this, no profile picture on the website where we met, no pictures of himself at all, because he was juggling work, divorcing a crazy person, practicing the guitar to stay sane, etc. But we had, as I mentioned, four solid weeks of talking about progressive melodic death metal and various bands from Sweden and Norway. Then he introduced me to a band from his native Texas, which is in the metal genre somewhere but is hard to categorize. Then he started assembling these YouTube playlists of these various bands and being really, really interested in the answer. And I'm sitting there thinking, "Damn, I wish I could hang out with this guy and spend an evening watching movies and talking about them, but he lives so far away." Finally, after MONTHS of knowing each other by Internet and phone only (I found his voice calming and soothing on a deeply primal level) and at last a couple of pictures (he turned out to be utterly adorable -- I liked how he could be silly and make fun of himself), he visited, and we talked, talked, talked, talked, talked, and had some sex somewhere in there. I cooked for him -- grass-fed beef from a local farm where the cows actually get to run around in the fields. But like. All that talking. It could technically have been seduction, I suppose, in the sense that talking about the musical career of Mikael Akerfeldt is seductive? How does one know if one has been seduced, years after the fact? (I apologize for the fact that my keyboard cannot reproduce the little circle over the A in "Akerfeldt." Maybe diacritical marks are secretly seductive too.)