Seriously I honestly do think age is just a number and I wouldn't rule anyone out in the age range 18 to approaching 70 because we are all different. My ex mother in law is a wonderful woman whose married to a man 40 years younger than her, and he's not weird or a gold digger, he's a successful businessman whose considered attractive and affluent. My ex wife was 8 years younger than I was and we had a great relationship- and still do, as we're still friends.
I think the most important thing is not to place any constraints on who or where you find love- I'm nothing to write home about-I have a fairly difficult past- but I do honestly and earnestly believe that love is there for us all if we only find the right person, and that includes you. To allow yourself to be subject of the doubts you are is doing yourself a great diservice- you come across as being intelligent, witty and generally a nice guy. I've no idea what you look like but beauty is in the eye of the beholder- I have some seriously horrible scars on my body and learned years ago that they do not make who or what I am. When the right person comes along I'll know- and so will they just as when the right woman comes along for you, you will- it just takes a bit of looking the world is a very big place.