Guilty Pleasures (55 page)

You are now at the perfect place to start.

Every single thing I advise or suggest in this book may or may not apply to your particular woman. Probably none of it will apply.

The truth is, the only thing that really works is love.

That’s right. The “L word.”

And I don’t mean lecherous, libidinous, lascivious, lustful . . . I mean love.

True love.

Keep your heart and your ears open and your flies closed, and you may just get a shot at the real thing with a real honest-to-goodness woman.

A word of warning: a true, equal-partner relationship with your woman—sexually, emotionally and intellectually—is not for the cowardly or the fainthearted.

 
Strange and scary stuff is going to be happening to you every day.

You will change, your life will change, your underwear will change, but it can be the most rewarding and exciting adventure of your life.

Good luck, guys, and remember, be careful out there.

—Sensual Secrets of a Sexual Surrogate

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank everyone at The Writer’s Coffee Shop for their caring and support.

A special thank you hug to my editors: Julie, Andrea, and Catherine for helping make this a better book and patiently nursing me through my very first edit.

Tyggy, you are the Goddess…

And a special thank you to Amanda, for taking a chance on me when no one else would; you are a star!

In the “civilian” world my thanks and all my love

to my lovely daughter Inês for putting up with a distracted Mommy,

to my mother for all the love and for believing,

to Sonia and Zeth, I would not have done it without your friendship and unconditional support,

and to the wandering philosophers and fellow travellers.

Thank you for the love.

About the Author

Manuela Cardiga was born in Mozambique and raised in South Africa where she studied fashion design. She moved to Europe where she worked as a fashion designer, then moved to the crazy world of advertising as a graphic designer and copywriter. Manuela is a designer by profession, a cook by vocation, and a writer by compulsion. She currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal where she writes contemporary and historical fiction, designs book covers, illustrates children’s books, and mothers a gorgeous daughter while juggling a day job. She also dabbles enthusiastically in exotic, experimental cuisine, much to the discomfort of family and friends
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