SUSANNA SAYS

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Hi, girls!

It is important in life to be realistic, but it is much more thrilling to believe in magie--as children do--and to savor every single bit of life as a bewitching gift of some unknown god or goddess. Personally, I'm determined to sreet a shrine to Venus Castina and to revive her cult among TV's in order to counterbalance our daily diet of tension in world affairs, monotonous conformity to dry social standards and the awful lack of imagination among the people who sur- round us. Every TV is an artist at heart in lesser or great- or degree, but an artist nevertheless. We usually start liv- ing in a world of make-believe--as children do--but we are fortunate to hold on to that presious gift and we keep it alive and active throughout our lives. Like Alice in Wonder- land we step into the mirror of TVism every single day of our lives and the world on the inside of that silvery surface is alive, real, excitingly wonderful...and at the end of its luminous paths we enter the temple of Venus Castina, the god- dess who, throughout history, has been responding with sym- pathy and understanding to the yearnings of our feminine souls locked up in male bodies. I am convinced our world needs--desperately needs--our capacity to bring to life a bit of magie in order to make life more beautiful, more ex- eiting, more livable. As I meet an ever increasing number of sister souls and listen to their case histories, their yearnings, and to the irresistible foree of their feminine ●gos I am more and more convinced that is almost impossible to define TVism. The definition will vary from individual to individual according to her own experiences and oppor- tunities. On one extreme, we find the simplest statement: just like to wear girls' clothes, At the other end of this fantastic rainbow, we find the tremendously complex assertion: I feel like a woman, I must be one. The fast is that no TV remains statie as a subject for analysis by scientific seal- pela..The personality is in constant flux--and, on the aver- age--in a steady march towards greater and greater femininity. What Susanna felt a year ago differs now from what she feels

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