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good food and good fellowship (or should I say girls- manship?). Playing pool as a girl has certain ad- vantages over doing it as a man. For instance keep- ing one foot on the floor is easier with heels though I think that the pleasure of the occasion does some- thing to ones masculine accuracy and precision. But came the end of the holiday and back to N.Y. Monday night.

In New York I met several of our member individ- ually and made several other contacts that may prove useful in the future. I also toured out to Kennedy airport to see our literary editor, former field co- ordinator for FPE and friend--Sheila--and wife off to Scandinavia via SAS. Having been there myself I was very envious of them. They will be making con- tact with our affiliate chapter of FPE-North Europe in Stockholm and later on the Beaumont society FPE group in England. I look forward to making that tour myself in a couple of years, but first I've got a battle to wage with the passport people about get- ting a passport for Virginia. This is not just a personal matter but a matter of principle involving the pursuit of happiness in a different gender role than the one your sex of birth would indicate. Wish me luck.

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Next stop was Chicago and Gisele again. We were an hour late and this caused some confusion as Kay, Cover Girl on #28, was also flying in from Michigan. However, we finally made it and all got together. That night Fran (Exec. Sec. of FPE) came down from Wisconsin so we had an executive committe meeting (Pres. 2 Vice Pres. and Exec. Secty) to thrash out a few FPE problems which we did with vigor (and that's the right word too).

The following night the Beta girls put on a party at which there were about 20 FPES, about 6 wives and pleasantly two mothers--Gisele's and Mary- ann's from Ohio (Cover Girl on #38). It was crowded in the motel but it was much fun getting acquainted

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