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keep on hand, I own no others and cannot even remem- ber the last time I had them on for it has been years. And, in this, as I said, I feel not the slightest bit of shame or guilt.

So I return to the query---All things being equal, who of us wouldn't rather be a girl? If by a simple will act, or by the twinkling of an eye, or by drinking a specially concocted potion, we could be instantaneously changed into a female, without painful surgery or any indefinitely drawn out process, who of us wouldn't chose that? Now this hypothesis is physically, psychologically, biologically and every other way impossible so why even mention it. After all our greatest peace of mind comes from being realists, taking things the way we find them, not the way we want them. Isn't that one of the prime aims of Transvestia, of FPE and of everything Virginia has dedicated herself to. Some of you girls are married and happily so. You wouldn't want to change that. Many, and I should hope most, are reasonably happy in their jobs, their surroundings etc., as a man, and you'd better be because that is all you are, so practically you must face up to it. But I think that all else taken into account, we would jump at the chance to be a real lovely girl, surrounded constantly by everything feminine, without pain of taunts, without fear of unjust law and narrow conventions of society, just all the time---in the car, in the kitchen, in the bed, on the street, at work, at a party, in the bath, ever and always---a girl.

Now I for one wouldn't want to be suddenly changed into a female of my age. Too much of the vanity and excitement may have already passed. While I am wishing, I might just as well wish that I would be a beautiful, curvaceous thing of 21. I wouldn't want to come to a sudden change of life and the fun all gone. As it is, when I dress, I dress accord- ingly, not as a glamour girl, a college coed, a beauty queen or a teen-age scatter brain. That would

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