have to hold my "girlself" down because my GG is present. I may not giggle, swish around or dance with another TV but I don't know any women that do those things either. To be accepted by a group of understanding GGs and join them in conversation is really living. They sure don't hold me down but only compliment the femme-feeling I enjoy. After all aren't we trying to emulate the best of feminin- ity and "femmehood"? To do so you must be near them at least once in a while. Their charm, warmth, and natural loveliness is what makes GGs truly beautiful and is the part that is really worth copying. So all in all I guess it's who you know and who you spend your time with in this TV land of ours that counts the most. I wouldn't trade a month of life for a whole year as a single TV because I would miss too much of the good life. Each to his or "her" own but let's have a cheer for the many couples that won the battle and lived happily ever after, instead of just concentrating our attention on those marri- ages that didn't work out.

Fran (49-C-1) FPE

"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sal- lies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial by what is contrary." John Milton, Areopagitica, (1644)

A number of years ago I read that deathless phrase for the first time and adopted it as my guide for dealing with life.

I can think of no better rebuttal to Susanna's provocative, and it seems to me, hopelessly wrong