It was very difficult to get the idea over to him that TV's where not necessarily interested in surgery. In fact, this confusion was apparent during the afternoon session too.

Finally luncheon was over and we adjourned to the auditorium and I took my place on the stage. The panel consisted of Dr. Harry Benjamin, who spoke first and reported on a number of transexual patients in his experience, the first time any consideable number of such persons had been reported on to a scientific meet- ing. Then came my turn and I presented my paper. I have reprinted it here because I felt that all readers. would be interested in how the subject was presented to the meeting.

I was followed, by Dr. Burchart of Germany and Dr. Paulu of University of Oregon then there were some questions. There were many other things that needed to be said, in my opinion, several corrections to be made to statements made by some of the other speakers, however there was insufficient time. I was pleased that twelve or fifteen of our group were in the audience and thank them for giving me a big hand. We sat around and visited a bit after the meeting and then went back to the apartment to prepare for the party at Susanna's that night.

This party for me was a lot of fun, renewing ac- quaintances from previous visits and meeting several others whom I had not met previously. We had the usual good time and didn't get to bed till about 3:00 AM but, even so, the party suffered from the usual defect of such affairs, there simply wasn't enough time to see and say everything that you wanted to.

Monday I went shopping as Virginia of course, think- ing that I would look into Macy's, Gimbels, Saks, and Ohr- bach's. Golly, I never got out of Macy's, what a Store- --everything, and twice over. I picked out three dress- es, I took two and put a deposit on another pending what I found in the other stores later in the week. I didn't find anything suitable and came back and picked up this dress on Friday--It is beautiful etched black velvet,

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