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I cannot but congratulate you now that I under- stand what you have been doing over these years. You have probably saved more people from depression or suicide or divorce than all the psychotherapy given to FPs, since, and this is my experience and that of colleagues, psychotherapy DOES NOT cure TVism. Psychiatry is much less a science and much more a morality, a religion, than we think. And it is ob- vious that Western psychiatry is presently condemn- ing a number of behaviours, among which TVism is one.

Among our needs for organization, one of the most important is probably the contact of under- standing women, women ready to marry transvestites and understand them. I don't know how this can be achieved but we should all scratch our heads until we find a solution.

Sincerely

PAULA

P.S. I'd very much like to contact other M.D. s, with their permission of course.

Dear Virginia,

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Our TV lives are full of little experiences and adventures, all of which we treasure as exciting memories, seldom able to share them with others. too, have had my share of these, in various parts of the world, including Paris, but one little inci- dent which happened right here in New Zealand, still amuses me, four years after it happened.

One evening, I was sitting with my wife having a quiet family evening at home and I was dressed in my best chic black cocktail dress, with lightly shaded sheer stockings, black patent pumps, and a

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