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not as a girl, but as a man who loves to express his femininity,atranvestite. Our movement is gradually becoming world-wide, and it's enormously important: it'll bring happiness to thousands of people who wouldn't have a hope otherwise. But boys who live their lives as girls don't help the fight at all; nobody knows they're TVs; and besides, they're living in another kind of de- ception. No, that's not the way."
Valerie paused, and looked at Jenny very kind- ly almost like a big sister to a little one. Then she went on:
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"You see, dear, a TV is just a complete person both masculine and feminine. We like our people to master_all_their problems, both the masculine ones and the feminine ones; we think that's what God has made us for, and that's how we can be happiest and most useful. In some ways it's the most rewarding. That's one reason why Virginia got Chevalier going in Ameri- ca, and that's why we're spreading the good work here. This is the complete way, the pure way, the honest way. We are as we are not one half or the other, but both."
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She patted Jenny softly on the shoulder. "The University deserves to have Dr. Caravelle back and the world needs him and he needs himself. But Jenny is needed too: there will always be work for her to do too."
Leaning over quickly, she kissed the other girl
in a swift, sisterly compassion, then added:
I'll be Paul again tomorrow
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"Valerie's turn is over too, for the time being. for a while and, be- lieve it or not, I'm rather looking forward to it. Man- hood has its compensations, you know."
She went out quietly. The click of her high heels faded into silence.
Dr. Caravelle's return to his University post was noted with joy by his scholars. They had discovered that he wasn't living in his house anymore, but had
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