our boys; a god send if there ever was one.

Transvestia

Now as the old philosopher once said, every man is entitled to one good dog, and one good wife. Well, I had a good dog long ago as a boy. A tho- roughbred of mixed ancestery, who would stay with me and listen to all my troubles. He was the first to hear of my inner desires and tender nature. I have a good wife now too. A sweet and loving crea- ture who not only knew of "her", but accepted "her" even before we were married. With her I also ob- tained two more sons, and one daughter, hers by her previous marriage. We do have an extremely happy family.

By way of correspondence with other TV's, through exotic ads, I learned of TRANSVESTIA, and of course began to buy copies as soon as I could, and joined FPE. At this time I was like a new per- son and began to see and understand myself as a new person. I picked a Femme name and made arrangements to meet some of the other girls. My first opportu- nity fell flat, as I was not able to attend a Christ- mas party at Frans, even though I knew our beloved Virginia would be there, and the departing Gisele, who was enroute to Germany. However, some three months later I was fortunate enough to meet some of the girls at Barbaras' with our Theta president Fran, and Marie, and their lovely wives.

Life took on a new meaning for me than, and I knew for sure that I wasn't the odd ball kook that I'd always suspected, but a member of a new and ex- citing society that I'd never known existed.

I made my debut in the name of Corinne, a name picked at random from a magazine; not knowing that a certain person by that name was a leading lady in the breakup of my wife's previous life. So a new name was to be selected. This time she assisted and we came up with the name of Julia; Julia Arlene, and for good measure a surname of Mahlany: Irish

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