bors were visiting us, we were supposed to play cards this even- ing, but it had slipped my mind. I had stopped to have a couple of drinks on the way home, don't get ahead of me though, I wasn't drunk or even feeling good. I had just had a couple of drinks.

The husband spoke up and said "You know, if you are going to be late, you should give your wife a call, she has been worried to death that you were going to come in half loaded.

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His wife stopped him by saying "this is none of our business, but you have such a wonderful wife and she worries about you a lot more than you think. "

My wife was standing and I told her to sit down, taking a chair for myself, I said "You know I am glad that I am late as this is as good a time as any to see who it worried about what and why. Then and there in about as blunt terms as I could use I told this wonderful couple that I was a transvestite.

Reaction? Yes, I got reaction!

The husband said "so what? Do you expect the world to come to an end," then he added, "to the best of my knowledge this is a desire to dress in feminine garments. Although I don't under- stand it, I can't see why it should upset you so much."

"My gosh" his wife said "he (indicating her husband) likes to arrange flowers, loves to dance and cries like a baby in a sad movie, but he doesn't get drunk every time one of these feminine sides of his nature comes through. Now come on and let's play cards. "

This should have been enough for anyone, but it wasn't for me--I continued to drink and feel sorry for myself. As a result of this, I started to lose my friends. My neighbor's wife contin- ued to visit with my wife, but they quit visiting when I was home.

"You see" I told my wife, "now that they know they don't want

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