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today. This is due in part to her wider range of contacts in the TV world--and in part to the greater frequency of her trips to the shrine of Venus Castina. Her personality has taken sharper contours (I mean the personality--her curves are still there!) and she has gained in force, vitality and individuality, traits which become more and more soparated, distinet, from her "other self". Where there was a simil- arity between "her" and "him", now we are finding an ever widening gap. A gap in interests, attitudes, even opinions. A psychologist would start talking at this point of a per- sonality split. Perhaps it is, and who cares! Both en- tities find their individual expression in their own way, and what's more important, they are both happy. Who con- trols who? That depends on the individual TV, the impor- tant thing to achieve is a state of "psaeeful so-existence", and believe me, girls, it can be achieved with faith, per- serverance and a great deal of ingenuity and imagination.

I have often compared the life of an active TV to that of an embryo who travels in a short span of time through all the stages of development of the entire race. Let us say that the awakening of the feminine ego takes place in your late twenties. In a very short span of a few years "she" will pass from childhood, to puberty and to womanhood. She will try to live in a few years all the ex- periences she would have lived through had she been born in a woman's body. That is why in some TV's we find a state of frantie eagerness as if every second, every minute, was the equivalent of an entire year of life. The amazing part of it all is that "she" does grow up. She learns to be a woman. That is why after she has been to a few masquerade balls, for instance, these affairs will cease to exeite her. They were part of "her" teen-age life in a manner of speak- ing. She outgrows that phase, just as she outgrows those long hours in front of a mirror. Not that the mirror ceases to be important, heavens no! But it is no longer the all-important goal. The ritual of dressing becomes more of a habit as she develops in other directions and as she finds new interests, new satisfactions in social life, in household activities, even in purely intellectual pur- suits.