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does like to stay up long after it has set. This difference provides me with a safety device,

For some years now I have had my own bedroom for various reasons. Around 5 A.M: I rise, slip out of the soft and pretty feminine nightie I have worn--a pretty lace trimmed gown or a lovely little baby doll and begin to dress. (I shave but do not shower as I always do that before retiring.) I wear a small pantie girdle which is ideal for making the front con- tour look feminine. This is the next best thing to having no nale organs at all which is what I would like but which is not possible for me. I put on a padded bra, slip on a pair of lovely lacy panties, a delightfully soft gown and then one of my really beautiful negligees. I briefly make up my face and don one of my wigs. Then for about two hours I can pre- pare my breakfast, eat it, and read and at the same time be the woman I want to be.

On Saturdays and Sundays I have somewhat more time. Then there are some evenings when I am free as my wife teaches late so I can, when I wish, wear my frills and laces for a short time then. On occasions we have taken our vacations separately. When my wife has gone I have the house to myself and no need to say that I make good use of it.

When I go on vacation I should love to take my pretty things but it would be difficult to manage this. I do the next best thing and take pretty sleeping attire and so man- age to assuage in some degree the longing I would otherwise have.

I have written this to let other TVs know how I "manage". Perhaps some of you will write of your ways of managing and so perhaps offer hints to me.

Winfie--Calif.