Transvestia

exciting lives of their heros and heroines. I be- came very introverted and withdrawn and preferred to amuse myself when given the choice. This tend- ency may have contributed to my early love of the feminine and what is identified with the women's world. I learned and enjoyed cooking, cleaning, and sewing, and when company came to visit I natur- ally gravitated to the women's conversational group.

As time went on I became interested in writing and took a general college preparatory course in high school. I made a few friends who, like myself, were considered "oddballs" by the others who went out for sports and so on. I dated a few girls but tended to become serious too swiftly and placed them upon pedastals and thus made the relationships go

sour.

I had a part time job as an usher in a theater and this plus school kept me too busy to dress much. This soon changed when my family moved to California and cut all my ties so that I had lots of time to kill and no friends to share it with.

This was the time I built up my first outfit. I enjoyed privacy of my personal things at home and wasn't discovered and so I dressed occasionally when the family was out.

When I graduated I sought a job and after many frustrating months, landed a fair civil sevice posi- tion which I still hold. I soon bought an adequate car and moved to a place of my own where I dressed at least twice a week for whole evenings.

Aside from a childhood friend with whom I had shared cross-dressing secrets, I had never met or heard of another TV. I was indeed a very lonely closet TV and felt great guilts, doubts, and fears of exposure and shame. As we all have, I read all I could find on the subject of men in skirts but all it did was convince me that I was sick and if dis-