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days at Susanna's resort. We met probably a dozen TV's and half that many wives. She and I both gain- ed tremendously from this experience for neither of us had ever met another TV before.

I can recall my first little successes with my wife, She progressed from insistance that I not wear makeup or a wig while dressed, to agreement that the makeup and wig were okay as long as I didn't try to kiss her while wearing it, and finally merely not allowing me to kiss her while she and Sally are at the drive-in together. Also in the early days she would say, "You're okay, but I don't want you to meet any of those others." Today I hear, "Isn't Fran's wife sweet?" or "Isn't Marlene. nice?" But the pro- gress is slow, even as we ourselves develope ever so slowly. We must appreciate this development and not even hope for instant acceptance. If it were too quick and too easy we might well wonder what we won.

There is one other thing deserving of mention. and in many cases it might become all important. That is the preservation and maintainance of the masculine image, apart from those occasions when the girl within comes out. We must attempt to make the most of such physical, mental, and emotional attributes as we possess, to be the best man and create the most girl within our ability to do so. I said, "Be the best man and create the most girl" because we are men and it doesn't take much effort to play the role we were born to play; it is inate- -yet the girl within takes creation. We had no girl- hood in which to learn how to build the image we desire. But the two must be separate. The boy must be all man, and the girl as much a woman as is within the ability of the creator For the girl side of our nature it would be fine indeed if we could all have thinly arched brows, long elegantly shaped nails and thick Beatle-styled hair to ob- viate the necessity of a wig, to our wives how ever, this would be a constant reminder of our peculiarities and to our business associates an