their noses at you and avoid you--but it will not be your self-feminization they are protesting against.

Not very long after the end of 1958, I met a very lovely girl called June who was a fashion adviser. She ran a charm school and model agency in another town. As we proposed to marry I felt it was both wise and fair to disclose my hobby. One night I showed her a col- lection of photographs. After she had recovered from her initial superise I told her all about it. A few weeks later early in 1959, she decided that she must meet Roma before deciding whether our relationship should continue on it's current basis. This due course, she did and she writes of her reactions and how she decided to accept the situation and to perfect it as far as possible by way of her charm school technique in her own article follow- ing this.

The charm course was really hard work, but worth- while and it is a pity that all FPS cannot have the bene- fit of a similar experience. Working in the school after- wards was also most satisfying emotionally and as by this time we had moved away to another and much larger town where I was unknown. I suffered no embarrassment in my business life as a result of acting as June's assist- ant and gimmick. Of this period also she will tell her- self.

Some of the changes in my appearance as the result of my training may not be apparent from the black and white pictures but, there are others that will, and I would like to mention one or two. First, after the first six months, June was quite sure my hair was the wrong color and said that it's blue-black shade gave me a hard rather masculine look. She also pointed out that it was sometimes too set and wig-like. Accordingly I was ch- anged to a loose wider style and had ash blond streaks introduced. The latter she considered much of an im- provement that she then made me completely ash blond which color I still maintain.

As far as dress was concerned, June decided firmly against tight waists. Full, fussy skirts and frills and flounces generally. She felt that such things were only suitable for young and pretty GGs and that a tall well-

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