French Letters

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Lee Whitnum, a former girlfriend of Senator Kerry, has written a semi-autobiographical novel in which her fictional alter ego, Nikki Matthews, has an on-off affair with a dashing Massachusetts senator - a Democrat whom she says is modelled on Senator Kerry.

Matthews, a Harvard graduate, describes her politician lover as a "caveman" in the bedroom who would whisper sweet nothings to her in French - a language Senator Kerry speaks fluently. He also has a home on Beacon Hill, Boston, as does the senator.

In another part of Hedge Fund Mistress, Matthews tells a friend about a particularly wild encounter over dinner with her political paramour, Senator Jim Hoyt.

"We were sitting at one end of the long dining room table and suddenly we were feeding each other and kissing, and all over each other, and undressing each other and plates were falling on the floor, food was everywhere, you know, our usual combustible frenzy, and then he carried me to the bedroom," she writes.