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Susanna Says....

Hi, everybody:.....

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read these lines chances are that Labor Day will not be too far...and this means that Vir- ginia will be spending that week-end at Casa Susanna. don't know how many girls there will be at the resort for that date...but you know how it is with TV's...they never know when they are going to have the necessary freedom to be themselves. I guess we spend half of our life-time concerned with the lack of freedom...would you say we live in prison? most of the time? For a good many TV's the answer is yes. The masculine world in which we perform seems to con- tain iron bars which form the cage for "the girl- within". The only TV's who seem to have such freedom are those TV's who are single (with my deepest apolo- gies to the pro-wedding TV's). They are the ones who can do as they wish, when they wish. They can travel unencumbered and they don't have to invent excuses to anybody as to the place where they are going, or as to the amount of money they decided to spend on a new wardrobe. A selfish viewpoint? Perhaps. I've been accused of selfishness so often that I think maybe my friends are right. The truth is I've learned to look out for myself first and foremost. And in the pro- cess of looking out for one's self, strange things do happen.

As many of you probably know there are three children: ages 9, 15 & 18 in my immediate family. Three boys. My step-daughter (their mother) is a

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