Transvestia

Bill has a few cocktails with other teachers but is usually anxious to get to his apartment and let Dorothy come forth every evening. It is perhaps Dorothy who is lonely wanting to meet other girls. Recently Dorothy has taken up sewing and voice practice and working on her nails and the proper gestures and mannerisms of a well brought up lady. She has also discovered that a small amount of eye shadow is helpful. All of these delightful pastimes help to take up Dorothy's feminine loneliness. Dorothy feels that there still is a great deal more that she can learn to be the best possible kind of lady, like some of the other girls she had read about in TVia, who sound so accomplished. A polaroid with self-timer is helpful but Dorothy has to learn natural poses - proper angles and how to avoid the double chin look. Really now, dieting is the answer any girl knows that, but Dorothy likes to eat. She has ruffles for her apartment curtains to make them more feminine and is looking for an ironing board and an iron that will do those dainty feminine items and cut down on the laundry bill. She'd love Santa to bring her a sewing machine, too. How simply wonderful everything is, that is so feminine.

Dorothy is having trouble using Neet and Nair getting skin irritations and rashes after using them on legs and arms. Do any of you girls know what to do about this kind of reaction? Don't like the thought of going back to shaving can never quite get everything that way. Maybe it's the way Dorothy applies or removes these products. From what I've read electrolysis sounds terribly expensive for the budget of a college teacher, twice divorced with 5 children . . . not to speak of a healthy desire to own new dresses, lingerie, and, for that matter anything else that a lady must have.

Nevertheless, being able to be Dorothy almost some part of every day is a great comfort and I should be grateful for that alone. And there is the looking forward to being given the opportunity to meet other TVs . . . and most of all contribute somehow to forwarding understanding of non-homosexual TVs.

So long for now.

Dorothy (21-D-3) FPE

Dear Virginia,

Life has been hell for me since I've been in Viet Nam. I live in