Letter 39 Background

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Hi, Kim here.
            I know I don’t usually write for this project but since everyone else is busy working on other stories and the website, Anne asked me to use the notes from her diary to do this background. So I suppose you could say I am now one of the writers. (Actually, since I wrote this I have become more involved with writing. Currently, I am working with Allan Sr. on one of the stories in Vol Nine.)

            We have just finished posting Vol Two in which Joseph and Lizamoa travelled to New Zealand to visit their friends Shanti and Mike. This letter, the first of Vol Three, begins a new series as Mike and Shanti prepare for their trip to India. Shanti does mention that there are only a few months to go before their trip and she suggests that they fill in this time by each writing a story using the word “first.” Let me quote from the Letter: -“It could be about our first sexual experience or the first time you had sex with your husband or wife. It could also be doing something for the first time which made a big change to your sex life.”

            The idea behind this short series of four stories was to build up the four main characters of the Letters Story by giving them extra history and background. The writers decided to do this by giving them each a story to write. In the end, it didn’t quite work out like this since Mike ended up writing two stories and Lizamoa helped Joseph with one then wrote another one herself. But then who cares, the result was much the same anyway because by reading these four stories you will get to know each of these four people a lot better.
            This letter also marks another turning point in the Letters Series because from this letter on the idea of recording a complete correspondence was dropped in flavor of recording a series of stories swapped between friends. It is assumed that there is further correspondence both in the letters and continuing via the Internet which has been left out since it is not sexy and no longer concerns us. In fact, I think you will find that e-mails and Internet chatting are mentioned from time to time in the letters and stories.

            Kia Kaka - Kia Kaha.
                  Be safe - Be strong.
                        Anne and Kim.

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