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in Oakland. I had planned to ride it all the way to Chicago just for old times sake. But a long distance phone call from Gisele in Chicago the night before informed me that I had to be in Chicago before the train would arrive so I had arranged to get off in Denver and fly the rest of the way. Being on a train again was quite a novelty after the jet planes and brought back memories of my childhood.

It was one of those trains with the Vista Domes up top and I spent quite a bit of time up there es- pecially going through the Sierras and the Rockies. I got well acquainted with a nice couple at dinner and found them pretty open minded about things and with some very sensible views about gender and sex. So I invited them to come to my compartment for a couple of hours before we were to get into Denver Thurs. evening. They did and I proceeded to tell them all about myself, the magazine and TVism. They were much interested and thanked me for sharing the material with them, and afterwards we had dinner to- gether again. Just goes to show again that it isn't difficult to tell others nor to achieve a measure of acceptance if you can do it with sincerity and real- ism rather than guilt.

I was supposed to have 2 hours between train and plane in Denver but the train was 3 hours late. So nothing to do but phone Gisele in Chicago, make arrangements to be met about 8:30 the next morning on another plane and go to a hotel. I checked in at 10:30, in bed by 11 and left a call for 2 AM tell- ing the operator to be sure not to forget as I had to catch that plane. As one will, I woke up volun- tarily at 12 and again at 1 AM to see if it was time and then when 2 AM came I was so dead that I didn't hear the phone. Remembering my warning about the plane the operator got worried and sent the bellman and the house detective up to the room. Knocking didn't wake me so they just came in and turned on the light which did the trick. There I was in bed in my nightie without make up and with a mans hairdo.

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