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stinker? The answer is yes to all. Now, if I do tell them, what's going to be the outcome? Will I warp their personalities for life? I don't think so, kids are not quite as brittle as many parents think. Will they hate me? Truthfully, I'm not wor- ried about this possibility either. I feel that I have been a good parent in all respects and I'm still the same person after they have been told as before. If perchance, they did hate me, well, I really would think that they, not I, were the guilty ones and should feel the shame. Then why haven't I told them, you ask? It's really very simple, my wife is ashamed, not I. When she can reach the point of total accept- ance, of me, as a person, not masculine nor feminine, then the children will be told. Why do I want them to know about me? I'm sick and tired of hiding in the bedroom, worrying that one of them will see me sneaking into the house, after I've finished work, or have gone some place. Hiding all my mail. Having my daughters wondering just who in the heck owns that pretty dress, slip, etc. in size 14. I think they will be better off to know the situation and accept it. When the day does come, I know that I will not appear as a comic to them but a rather pleasing looking woman.

Much has been written on why we act the way we do, is there or isn't there any cure, etc. If you are a confirmed cross dresser, have had the blues, abstain- ence, guilty feelings, plus three or four hundred other little problems that go along with it, does it really matter why we do it or how it started? At my stage, I couldn't care less. I'm this way and have been almost since my first thought entered my head. To me, it's hard enough, just keeping myself under control enough to please the outside world. I'm not going to add any extra burdens if I can help it. I am beginning to enjoy life very much and I intend to continue on the same basis for as long as this old body can stay together. Not very deep thinking on my part, I will admit but I never really cared to play the intellectual. If I try and figure out what