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    Hi Babe: Letters to My Sweet
    Hi Babe: Letters to My Sweet
    Hi Babe: Letters to My Sweet
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    Hi Babe: Letters to My Sweet

    By Giselle Renarde

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    Isn’t a family vacation in cottage country meant to be relaxing? Sure, that’s the idea. But when one family member is fired by phone and another’s been hacked, stress is sure to follow. Amid forgotten birthdays, anxiety attacks, infectious disease and porcupine sightings, celebrated author Giselle Renarde invites you to share in the warm embrace of her quirky family.

    In this intimate portrait of real life events, read correspondences from Giselle’s cottage retreat to her girlfriend back home and experience the vacation vicariously. Even in cottage country, there’s never a dull moment!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGiselle Renarde
    Release dateJul 16, 2018
    ISBN9780463113790
    Hi Babe: Letters to My Sweet
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    Giselle Renarde

    Giselle Renarde is a queer Canadian, avid volunteer, and contributor to more than 100 short story anthologies, including Best Women's Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, and Best Lesbian Romance. Ms Renarde has written dozens of juicy books, including Anonymous, Ondine, and Nanny State. Her book The Red Satin Collection won Best Transgender Romance in the 2012 Rainbow Awards. Giselle lives across from a park with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.

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      Hi Babe - Giselle Renarde

      Introduction

      It’s about this time every year that I seriously consider moving out of the city. The urge for going is usually precipitated by coming back to Toronto after a week in the woods. After a week of peaceful relaxation at a family friend’s lakefront property, the city feels unliveably harsh, loud, irritating. When I get back from the woods, I always ask myself why on earth I live here.

      But this little book isn’t about the city. It’s about my time away from it… with my family.

      A Week in the Woods with Family was inspired by a mundane confluence of thoughts and events. First off, I wanted to stay in touch with my girlfriend/cat-feeder while I was away. Without internet access or cell service, I turned the clocks back to the days of letter-writing.

      The last time I recall writing letters with any regularity, postage was thirty-seven cents (it’s now a dollar) and my cousin, who lived in a town I then considered far-far-away, was my best friend and pen pal. There were fewer choices for communication, back then. Long distance phone calls were strictly forbidden in my household (they cost significantly more than $0.37, I presume), so we put pen to paper.

      I wonder if I still have any of her letters. I’d be very curious to see what a pre-teen would have written about. I do recall the paper we wrote on, because it was floral and about as thin as one-ply toilet tissue. My grandmother bought us co-ordinated stationery. Or somebody did.

      So, it was kind of a blast from the past to write letters again—a throwback to the pre-internet days, long before I met my Sweet. I put a moratorium on work while I was on vacation, and so letter writing quickly became a surrogate for creative expression. I kind of felt like I was sending my girlfriend her daily reading assignments, but she claims to have enjoyed them and I hope you will too. (Nota bene: Sweet has often instructed me never to tell readers I hope you enjoy my book because it creates the subtle suggestion that they might not. Instead, just say ‘Enjoy my book!’)

      The other point I wanted to mention paragraphs ago, before taking off on that Grampa Simpson ramble about pen-pallery and

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