Transvestia

I have never been able to discover why my boss was so reasonable except that he was

a very fine leader of men and that he had a wife who was very artistic but a year or so ago some friends of mine were discussing his son and one of them remarked that he used to go to the lunchtime fashion shows at one of the local hotels and appeared more interested in the clothes than in the models, so he may have had more experience with transvestism than I sus- pected.

In due course I went on leave to England and before I left I sent three letters to Virginia and asked her to forward them to three T.V.s in England. The procedure regarding letters through Contact was tightened up as a result of my previous experience and in due course I received three replies.

I had a wonderful few months in England and man- aged to meet a number of T.V.s though as the English girls were not as well organised as they are now there were never more than three of us present at one time. There was an extreme reluctance to disclose the names of any of each others friends, possibly because we felt that by doing so we would somehow be overshadowed and pushed out in the cold. Until you have been to a T.V. party it seems unbelievable that people of varying ages, varying backgrounds and varying races and cultures can have so much in common.

Whilst I was in England I also had two other firsts, one of which was my first appearance at a fancy dress ball en femme with very little exag- geration or burlesque and I was very pleasantly sur- prised at the excellent reception which I received. Secondly I decided that I must tell one member of of my family about Rosemary I baulked at telling my mother, but decided to inform my brother. To my amazement although he had never felt any desires in. this direction, he was remarkably well informed - in fact very much better than the psychiatrist who had treated me in Hong Kong, and although he was a little