Transvestia

not make friends easily. On leaving school I was called up as all boys of my age were and did two years National Service; on my return to civilian life I started on my career and lived for a period of time in London, firstly in digs but later in shared flats.

My first T.V. experiences were in my pre-teen years but they were of necessity very covert and consisted of the usual borrowings of my mother's clothes and from the theatrical cupboard at school. I did not really begin to branch out until I moved to London and then I started purchasing lingerie, dresses, shoes, cosmetics and jewelry mostly junk and in appalling taste, but when you have no-one to lean on it is very difficult to acquire taste except by experience. However, I do remember one incident when I saw one of the blouses I had, on a real girl and realised how tasteless it really was!

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I also bought a wig during this time, but was never able to do much with it the fault was entire- ly mine as this wig is now one of my most treasured possessions though it is now beginning to wear out. However, when I bought it the craze for fashion wigs had not come and hairdressers who knew how to deal with wigs were few and far between.

Whilst I was in London, I had numerous girl- friends and finally I met "the" girl and after quite a long courtship married her and in due course came to Hong Kong.

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I had like so many before me, assumed that Rose- mary would depart when I married. I hadn't perhaps been quite so definite as some of the other girls who had destroyed or given away their precious things. merely left them in U.K. in storage, but inevitably the desire returned and I found I could not resist it so I arranged for my clothes to be sent out here and soon was dressing as much as before. I realised then that if I did not tell my wife, she would find

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