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Puritan Land

Dorothy FPE-21-D-3 The hardest part of writing your story is knowing where to begin. There are so many places to start. Although I am a professional advertising writer, I still get choked up when writing about being a TV because I want what I'm writing to be meaningful and helpful to other TV's.

By the way of introduction, my femme name is Dorothy Deans (the name of a very close childhood playmate to whơm I wrote my first love letter) and my pen name is "Doll Tearsheet" (The innkeeper's daughter in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II). Dorothy Deans accepted Bill (my brother) for everything that he was and Doll Tearsheet accepted Folstaff for everything that he was. So you see, these names were not picked at random.

For a start, I'll go back to what interests most TV's. How did I become a TV, if I was not born that way? I have a theory about it. At a very young age (probably before 4 or 5) I was mentally castrated by a deaf mother and a series of spinster nurses who didn't like men. I don't know what happened between mother and me, but I can remember nurses telling me all the time that I was a bad boy and that my sister was an angel. Of course, I wanted to be an angel, because all girls were angels, so I started trying to look like a girl at the age of 6 or 7 in every way that I could. I discovered an immense feeling of being one by putting on everything that my sister or mother wore at every opportunity I could find. I must have looked quite ridiculous, but nevertheless it was the closest thing to heaven where the angels dwelled. That I could change into a girl became "my secret."

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