What about his writing style gives him away?

Have you ever considered buying 5 acres of land and building a cabin?

Considered is the wrong word. Dreamed of it. I don't yet have the means to 'consider' it.

I'm not sure if I would need companionship or not. I want a wife, but at times I think that's weakness talking.

This evening I was visiting with a priest my age. He talked about the moment, some time following the conferrance of the subdiaconate, when it dawned on him that he would never marry. He was sitting on a hill in Switzerland. I felt something uncanny when he related it.

It was one of those moments when you realize that another person really exists, in the same way that you exist. But there was something else: a dim kind of recognition. How many times have I sat alone on a hill and danced around that same thought?

You know, I've a collection of things for my future wife. I have no idea who or even if she'll be, but I have some things I know she would like.