Transvestia

I've made into Chevalier' s office. The second has become the guest room (and at the moment catch all of things not yet sorted out). The third which WAS the master bedroom has become the "Mistress's" bed- room. Picture wall to wall beige carpeting, white with gold trim French Provincial furniture with a corner desk that becomes a knee hole vanity; a double bed with a lovely bedspread; a 6 foot horizontal mirror over the long chest of drawers plus a full length verticle one; a walk-in wardrobe closet with clothes poles on each side and cupboards above, plus a verticle cupboard about 2 feet wide and deep with adjustable shelves in which can be kept wigs, pads, hats, etc. This then is Virginia's room, and it is lovely. The rest of the house is all carpeted too and my furniture, tho sparse, manages to make it look filled up.

There is a lot of garden front and back which needs all manner of work. The house is right on a canyon street but has only one neighbor behind a high fence and hedge. Geography precludes any other neighbors ever. The situation therefore is that I, Virginia can come and go big as life, work in a sun dress on the front lawn or the side lot, clipping hedges, pulling dandelions, planting petunias or whatever-. I am just a woman working in her garden. Inside of the house I can and do dust, vacuum, iron, mop up, cook, clean up, sew, paint and whatever else a woman needs to do. If Charles needs to come to life as he does part of most every week, he does so with no confusion for either me or anyone else. This therefore is OUR house tho primarily Virginia's.

It is amazing to realize that only 18 months ago I was going thru hell with the divorce and today I am happier than I have ever been before in my life. This happiness has set me to thinking as to how come. It is much more than just having a nice place to live etc. I am at last FREE of all the problems that have bugged me most of my life (and which un- fortunately bug most of you). I don't have to answer to wife, husband, parents, employer, neighbors or

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