Hugh Hefner

Julie
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Our sustained ability to make shallow relationships with beautiful women, fills some weird need to massage our male egos. But! This has us in the enviable position of being surrounded on the beach by bikini clad beauties. We are going for a sort of Hugh Heffner style. (without gold lame thong!) To the slightly jealous onlooker this is probably a bit sad and unbelievable!

The trick to these relationships is for us, to genuinely not care for more than the lovely company. I think that, if any of us tried to develop any of these relationships into deep meaningful, overnight style relationships we would have to start sitting alone on the beach. If we believe that any of these ravishing beauties actually think of us in a romantic way, we really will be sad and the onlookers will be right!

We are making friends though, people to meet at the beach, folks who tap you on the shoulder in the bar to say hi, folks that like to dance, or meet by the park for coffee. This is all good, it helps integrate us into the local community and makes the place feel like home. Without exception, all of us here miss our real home, friends and family. So, to create the feeling of belonging is important to us. I have no doubt that when the time comes to leave, there will be one or two new friends from here, that will be added to the list of people who are greatly missed.