Transvestia

not too favorably impressed with this person, my first real TV acquaintance. Since then I have made a much wider and varied acquaintance among other TVs and I was very relieved and glad to find that my first TV was an exception rather than the rule.

Shortly thereafter I found TRANSVESTIA and through Contact I met several other TVs in this area and we had a few irregular meetings during the Summer. By Fall others had been added to the group and I offered my apartment as a place in which to meet and dress one night each week. Also two of the "girls" arranged to keep their wardrobes in my place due to the inconvenience of trying to maintain them in secrecy at home. Some of you will readily identify with this situation, I'm sure.

Our get-togethers continued and by word of mouth we grew in size. On very special occasions there have been twenty to twenty-five TVs attending. Along with our informal attendance, the FPE membership in- creased and thanks to Sheila's efforts we formed into a local chapter this past year and hold a regular monthly business meeting, dressed of course. For the past two years, most of us in the area have been meeting each week to dress, take pictures, discuss ideas, plan special events, and to just relax in a most pleasant atmosphere.

Some of our activities have included; a Christ- mas party at which we exchanged feminine gifts, a Halloween outing with male (at least so dressed) escorts, a pajamma party with GGs present, a wig party which I somehow missed, and just lately a lingerie party with GG representative and hostess at which I helped model and loved the opportunity. We once had a party in a beauty shop given by two TVs' landlady who loves them and their friends and so threw the party just after she had remodeled the place.

In addition to the collection of cameras in use,

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