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Now the above bit of philosophy just came to me as I sat down to write this piece since the events of my life during the past two years just seem to work out about like that snowball. First there was the divorce which freed me from responsibilities in that direction. Then I sold my business and retired to "do my own thing" as they say. This freed me from a lot of other obligations. Last year I went to Expo 67 and to a number of other places including the boat trip on the St. Lawrence seaway proving to myself that I could get on adequately as a woman at close quarters. Finally, last December I bought my own house and the results of that experience (which continued unabated up to the present) I recounted a couple of issues back. This time I want to relate two other experiences which coming fast on the heels of the others, is what made me think of the snowball analogy. Things can happen with greater frequency, with shorter intervals between them and of greater importance all based, of course, on the slow accumulation of background and experience over the proceeding several decades. I hope I can convey some of my feelings about these two events just so that you can share them with me vicariously. Again as several times in the past I feel it necessary to disclaim any intent either to brag of my activities or to seem to encourage others to "go and do likewise." Neither of these is the case. I simply want to keep you abreast of my own development and experiences to use the act of writing them as a means of crystallizing them in my own mind, so here goes.

The first of these you will hardly believe to be possible and sometimes I'm inclined to doubt that it really happened too but it did. Some of you may remember reading in TIME magazine last January or February about a psychologist who was holding nude psychotherapy sessions. Sensitivity training is all the thing in psychological thinking these days. Even big executives in big companies go to such courses to learn how to react emotionally and to be human beings and not business machines or top sargeants to their employees. But it was a breakthrough when a psychologist decided that to have such a session in the nude would really get down to basics (in more ways than one) and do it quicker. I have known this man for a number of years. He knows all about Virginia and he has in the past been to several of our Alpha-FPE meetings.

When I first heard about the nude sensitivity marathon it seemed to be a rather interesting approach but as I did not feel

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