Transvestia

or at least tell her as much as he thought prudent. After I signed they wanted the full story of my transvestism from my earliest recollections up to the present time. Since I had now told several people I managed this with- out undue embarrassment. Then they wanted to know my precise whereabouts on that Sunday the previous summer when we had gone to the reservior picking blackberries. As I told them and spoke about the white dust on the berries and how we had watched the recovery team working in the distance I could sense their relief, the worried frowns they had when I first entered the room disappeared from their faces. Finally they gave me the full story and as they proceeded I could understand the reason for their frowns.

It seemed that on the Saturday night before our trip to the reservior, it was reported to the police that an aircraft had crashed and exploded near the reservoir, it was known that no aircraft had been reported missing but a recovery team was immediately sent out to investigate. On their arrival at the spot they found a large canister which had burst open on hitting the ground, at first it was thought to be part of an American or Russian rocket, but further investigation revealed it contained only the white powder we had seen on the berries, but packed tightly into dozens of small compartments. The pieces were duly collected and sent to a laboratory for analysis. During the collection of the pieces all the recovery team were covered with the white powder but no notice was taken of this as it washed off so easily being instantly soluble in water. Then about four weeks later the sergeant in charge of the team, and incidentally the only married man in the group, visited the camp doctor and reported he had gradually become unable to have any relations with his wife. He was examined and found to be both im- potent and sterile. No explanation for this could be found and it was not until he casually mentioned the powder to a doctor that any possible connection between the two events was suspected. A top priority investigation was ordered and every person known to have been in contact with the powder was examined, each was found to have been affected in exactly the same way. Scientists had been unable to analyze the powder but when tested on animals it proved to have no effect. Their report sug- gested the canister was not of terrestrial orgin and had

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