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LADIES DAY (Con't.)

Dear Editor: My husband told me you would like to have my impressions and opinions on transvestism, and I am happy to comply.

Perhaps, unlike other women, I have been fortunate in being exposed to the problem for many years, since my wig-making business acts as a magnet on TV's. I have met many of them--and I find them no different from other people. Perhaps the only distinguishing mark about them is a certain sweetness quite uncommon in men who do not feel the way TVs do. They like me because I accept them as human beings and I don't think that their unconventional desires are a handicap to their personalities Let me say, however, that I married a TV not because he is a TV, but because I fell in love with him just as he is, with his faults and virtues, things that are seen through the eyes of love. I want, more than anything else to see my husband happy. I found that whenever he had to refrain from indulging in his TV desires he became unhappy, morose, irritable... .so, why should I deprive him of a source of joy? It makes me happy to see him happy, and I can't imagine there is any stronger reason to alter this. I've also found that a TV husband represents certain advantages of marriage safety to a wife. Since he can in- dulge at home whenever he wishes, I find that I never have to worry about his straying away from home, as so many of our TV friends are forced to do in order to satisfy de- sires they cannot share with their wives. A wife should never remain outside the field of basic interests of her husband and since TV is such a strong force, she will be doing a disservice to herself and to her husband if she chooses not to share with him that basic part of his life. Love solves all problems, sincerely

Mrs. Marie Valenti-

-New York

Here is a woman and a wife who not only accepts TV but makes it a part of her life and her marriage. She is the other half of the Valenti family that run the Chevalier d'Eon Resort described in Issue 1. -Ed.