Transvestia

that person rebounds onto yourself. You won't need to come home raving about that dress in XYZ's window and how much you'd like it--because she has already gotten it for you--because it would make you happy. There'll never be a lovelier dress for you, not ever.

Marriage is not a 50-50 proposition: it is at least 95-95. You find that out when that longest of long nights comes when you finally come to real- ize that you simply cannot live another day in a role that you can't stand. And the girl you blurt this out to--the girl who has given you two sons-- the girl who has unwittingly and often unintention- ally destroyed all your illusions, holds you in her arms and says, "Very well--I'll help you to achieve whatever you want. I'll support you while you make the changeover (socially if not physically, but in either case), I'll do anything if I can make you happy," then--if never before or since--you know what you have and what a fool you are and how lucky because in the dirty, filthy business of making your idiot's progress across the face of this idiotic world, you have found the one thing that gives it any meaning at all--a woman's love.

Jeri (49-K-3) FPE

I was awfully surprised to see Susanna's arg- uments against marriage for you TV's It seems pretty silly to me because things don't have to work out that way at all.

Sure, it's hard. But if you want to, you can blame everything up to and including the weather on TVism. Maybe some people do. I think the whole thing is, you've got to make up your mind that it will work. If you decide it won't--well, it won't and there's no point in going through the bother in the first place.

I'm not saying it isn't hard. It's something

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