Tuesday evening Ruth's brother, a very fine and gentlemanly person incidently, escorted his sister and myself to cocktails and dinner in Ft. Lauderdale. We went to the best places and I wore my green print satin dress that I'm shown in in several of the accompanying pictures. This is modishly short and low cut in front as you can see so that I felt myself a real lady (in more ways than one) to go to such exclusive places as these . . . where the menu is all in French and the waiters wear white gloves and all that. I had a wonderful evening and am pleased to thank him in print as well as in person not only for that event but, with Ann of Atlanta, for making the Florida trip financially possible as it was not on my original agenda.

On Wednesday May 29, I flew to Denver from Miami by way of Dallas and as Braniff Internat. couldn't get their plane put together in time we had a 2 hour delay in Dallas which cut me out of a dinner with the Denver people. But I finally got there and met Maureen 6-J-1 FPE, Elaura Ann 6-H-3 FPE and Barbara 6-B-1 FPE - all as their brothers, of course. Later we went to station KOA to do the Bill Barker show. He had gotten a psychiatrist and a psychologist to help him in his "examination" of what he probably expected was some sort of a kook. It was really funny. Obviously neither of these two professional men knew any more about the subject than what they had read which, as most of you realize, was not much. I'm afraid that contact with a real, live, walking, talking TV who was able and more than willing to hold her own on the subject was something of a shock to them. I will say tho that the psychiatrist in summing up for the benefit of Mr. Barker did say that he had to agree with me regarding the fact that gender was a learned behavior and not something you are born with. The fact that I was able to cite chapter and verse on some psychiatric authorities obviously surprised and impressed him. So between the interview, the pamphlet and the Wives book I guess we did a pretty good job on the two of them . . . the public's reaction was apparently very good too as I've already had a number of letters from the area. One was from a professor at a

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