Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies impacts every aspect of our

impacts every aspect of our lives

and probably never will

a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend

of the most brilliant

Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies impacts every aspect of ourWitty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt's Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies "Hello stranger." As an opening line, you really can't ask for better. Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters at a bar, through social media, in a bathhouse and what a stranger can reveal about who we are and who we could still yet be. A stranger, after all, is a site of endless possibilities.