after all, why would a 20-year old guy with no girlfriend wanna be hanging around with a girl half his age?

OBVIOUSLY, because a 10-year-old is ten times more lovely than any almost any 20-year-old :-)

My motto (I have a lot of them, but one at least) is that you have to court the parents almost a much as the girl. If mom / dad do not like you, it is hard to get quality time with their 10-year-old. I also have a theory that if mom secretly finds you more attractive than she finds her husband, then she is more likely to be open to you hanging around with her daughter — as long as she does not suspect that you are actually more interested in her daughter than in her :-)

The sweet spot for me is girls 6- to 10-years-old, but I like many of them from 2 to 14 really. Right now I have a huge crush on a 7-year-old. Last time I saw her I got to really cuddle her for a while, and "fantastic" does not even begin to describe how awesome it was.

Glad to "meet" you.

zlurker