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"I think he might, my husband is the most generous person in the world, with his time as well as with his property. But what in the world could a magazine like Transvestia have to do with my husband?"

"We think that your husband may have the answers to many questions. After all, he is the world's leading authority on children, isn't he?" I asked.

"Yes, but..."

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"Well, I continued, "a lot of our readers think that trans- vestism gets started in childhood. We would like your husband's opinion on that."

Nikki spoke. "I'm not sure he can answer that. He doesn't really see too many children in person you know, but of course, he gets a lot of letters...

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"Exactly," I said. "And to be perfectly honest with you, some of our readers even blame your brother for their transvestism. Nikki exploded. "I deny that categorically. I never...I mean my brother never caused Transvestism in any boy! Why he has gone out of his way to see that boys didn't get dolls and dresses that they asked for...at least most of the time."

"Some of our readers blame him for that, too. They feel that they were destined to be TV's., so why shouldn't they have had pretty dresses as children? Your brother refused them."

"Well, now," sputtered Nikki, "I think that I..er, he has been very careful to give dresses and dolls only to little boys that were sure to be TV's anyway. He would never deliberately foster Transvestism. Not that he's against it, it's just that life is so difficult for a TV."

Now, I'll admit that I'm not the brightest guy in the world, but just because I was sixteen years old before I learned to wave bye-bye doesn't mean that I'm stupid. The light began to dawn. I've seen a lot of TV's in my life. I'll admit that this one had me fooled for quite awhile. red velvet dress was a man! like a ton of powder puffs.

This beautiful creature in the fitted And the enormity of who he was hit me I almost whispered, "You and your

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