Here’s the thing. Even if he, and by his own admission, was in his 30’s and “dating” high school age girls 16 and 17 years old (assuming the story of the then 14-year-old is false), even as with the age of consent at the time not making it “illegal” and even with the parent’s permission and doing nothing more than kissing them and reading bad poetry and strumming his guitar for them (and not “strumming” any other, um…. instrument), it’s still creepy as shit.
Yes, some teenage girls can be pretty “mature”, at least physically for their age, fewer still are emotionally or intellectually mature though.
And before anyone jumps in with the “well my grandmother got married to my grandpa when she was 15 and he was 25”, aside from that I would hope grandpa was not serial stalking other 15 year olds before settling down with “grandma”, these kind of matches were often just that, “matches”, back when and in areas of the country where “courting” still went on and typically between two people of the same socioeconomic class and typically of a similar background and education level and with the goal, often shared with the parents of both, toward marriage.
Ask yourself, what would a 32-year-old man with military experience, college educated and a law school graduate, working as an assistant DA find interesting in 16-year-old high school girls? Be honest.
It would be one thing if he had met a charming, pretty and rather mature high schooler and they dated for a while, but making a pattern of it? That’s at the very least creepy.