well have been the area I was in and not my appearance. However, as I said earlier homosex® lity was not my failing so I moved away quickly.

On one fortuitous evening around this time I met my future wife and over the next couple of years I fell deeply in love with her but, I was very reluctant to marry her because I did not know whether I could give her the happiness she deserved due to my TV habits and I found I was unable to summon enough courage to tell her: when you have kept a secret to yourself for over 15 years it takes more cour- age than I possessed to tell her of Rosemary. However she gave me an ultimatum one evening as a result of which I proposed and we were married.

Soon after I married I applied for and was given a post with a company which has contacts throughout the Far East and was posted to Hong Kong. I had on my wedding day packed away all my clothes and resolved to have nothing more to do with being a TV.

When I had been overseas some months I found that I was back in my old ways again, so I summoned every ounce of courage I poss- essed and told my wife of Rosemary. I had always used this name but quite out of the blue my wife decided that my feminine half should be called Rosemary--one of the curious coincidences of life that can never be explained. She had lived in a very broad comm- unity and although she had never met one face to face she knew what Transvestism was. Although I hesitate to say she was happy about it she understood far more than I could ever have hoped for.

The next great step in Rosemary's life was the discovery of "Transvestia" and the fact that there were hundreds of other people who had lived with this and had had perfectly happy and productive lives. Soon after I obtained my first copies I showed them to my wife. She read them and I think they helped her although she is, she tells me still frightened that I shall become more and more Rose- mary and less and less my masculine self, until as she said she would have a most peculiar person left as a husband. I have tried to con- vince her that I have no intention of either changing my sex or liv- ing permanently as a woman, though I realize that Rosemary will be with me for the rest of my life. I feel that now she is out in the open she will trouble me less and allow my masculine life more free- dom which has definitely been the case over the last few months.

That is my life story to date-what will happen in the future I

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