Letters to the Editor

Dear Virginia:

A few years before World War I, a child was born to a husband and wife. The child was placed in the dresses worn by both sexes, which were used until it was about a year old. A head of beautiful blond curls adorned its head until it was 4 years old. Everyone said, "What a beautiful child! My what lovely curls".

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Gorgeous children are seen many times, but this one with the blond curls, a clear perfectly featured face, and oh yes, velvet suit with a frilly shirt waist, knee length skirt, white stockings and patent leather buttoned shoes was taken at 4 to the barber shop. While mother let a small waterfall of tears stream down her face, the man in charge of the young one went snip, snip snip and the curls fell to the floor. It was funny the way the hair left on the head no longer had any curl at all. One lone curl was picked up and saved by the tearful mother and the little one was shown that curl many times as long as 15 years later.

Home she went with her offspring and changed the clothes of the child. The little one still played with its dolls and doll clothes for the rest of the year--until Christmas when the dolls were taken away and new clothes given. I forgot to say one thing: The new clothes were a suit of plain white shirt, tie and knee length pants. As you see it was now a BOY, with the destiny to grow up to a man.

A few years have passed, and now "Sonny Boy" is 10 years old. Someone invited "Sonny Boy" and mother to a halloween party, and now for the first time since the year the culs were cut, mother gave the boy a girl's outfit and a wig made from mother's switch. This was the costume for the party. The boy loved that party, and to this day 41 years later can remember everything that happened that Halloween eve. The boy felt reborn and since that time I have always been a TV.....

Sincerely.

000+++000

LUCIE (32-B-4)

Dear Editor:

TRANSVESTIA has been a going concern for a couple of years now, and I want you to know how glad I am that I have been a subscriber

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