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  1. Dear Ms Bennett, I have just finished reading all three of your novels I’ve read them straight through since I started North Coast. I loved and could not put them down. They have been part of my healing of the deep loss of my partner Garby Elmore. I was also born in 1942 and have always wanted to write. but actually having done very little mostly as a member of a writers’ group, and sermons as a clergy person (now retired.). Ten years ago I met and wound up marrying this amazing woman 6 years my senior. We had an active and amazing ten years, traveling abroad, doing the Snow Bird thing to California and exploring the areas between our homes here in Mason County and an active senior community in Southern California. The “North Coast” was one of our favorite place, where we often stopped for visits with her daughter who lives in the Pigmy Forest south of Mendicino. Garby passed away suddenly this past October and part of the healing for my grieving process has been looking for “Lesbian Love Stories” about women who found each other later in life and loved deeply. Most of what I have found has been stories of “younger women that seemed to rely on an overdose of gratuitous and explicit sex… not what I was looking and longing for. I have throughout my life also had the desire to write and have written some poetry and of course sermons but don’t seem to know how to start and create “stories.” Some of my family members who have been intrigued by and enjoyed sharing my own” late in life love story” and how it came about and deepened have been encouraging me to write that story, which I would love to do, but I don’t know how to go about starting and developing this. If you are so inclined I would love to chat with you about how to go about developing a commitment to writing, and possibly attempting such a project. Thank you so very much for your stories that have inspired my desire to write and been a source of comfort in my loss and grieving. Again, thank you for your heartfelt and loving stories!

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