It was my ex- actually that used to like me calling her babe. We continued using "babe" as we communicated through our own personal email addressesl. In fact she used to complain if i don't call her babe somewhere on my letter hahaa
She would say things like, am I not your babe any more, you did not call me babe? This could be because she watched western movies and read western books.
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