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with new friends and renewing old friendships. I get so many letters from so many people that I come to know by mail but have never met. This trip en- abled me to meet face to face for the first time many only previously known by correspondence--Mont- real, Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis--its great to have friends all over, a real reward.

Since Gisele and her lovely wife Cynthia took care of me for 4 days on the way out and 3 on the way back as well as planning many activities while I was there, I want to extend my thanks to both of them. Cynthia doesn't get much play in a report that deals mostly with TV doings but she does a lot for the cause and I want her to have her share of appreciation.

Next stop was Minneapolis where I was met by three of our sister's brothers. It was so conven- ient since I had three bags. It makes a lady feel very nice to have three boys taking care of her thanks to all of them. That afternoon we went to the Univ. of Minnesota Medical School Department of Psychiatry for a seminar which had been arranged by Dr. Hastings the man who is heading up the trans- sexual surgery work. There were about 30 doctors, interns, residents and other interested personel. I told them all about our activities, FPE, the Found- ation, the magazine etc. They asked many questions about TVism, its difference from TS and HS, etc. and we kept at it for about 21⁄21⁄2 hours. It was a very good session.

That evening I had the interesting experience of taking to dinner my first wife and her sister and sitting around the hotel room and talking afterwards. This was the one that divorced me on account of TVism. I had the satisfaction of having her acknowledge that I made quite an authentic and attractive woman. It took 20 years for that satisfaction to come so I say- oured it when did.

The following morning before being taken to the

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