My wife and I were very impressed with what she had to say regarding T.V. We sent off for her book "The Transvestite and His Wife" and a subscription to Transvestia. After reading Virginia's book I finally started to see why I dressed and my wife started to become tolerant when she began to realize that my dressing was not caused by her and that I wasn't really a latent homosexual.

My wife has helped with my wardrobe and has accepted my dressing fully, even to the point of buying me jewelry and make-up for me as little gifts. I now dress fully in front of the children and there is no guilt or shame on anyone's part. I think my wife rather enjoys having Janice around to help with the house work and the children. Since bringing Janice out in the open I have shaved all my body hair in order to look as feminine as possible. I have found that my wife accepts Janice a lot more readily when I look the part rather than having all my body hair and looking like a man in a dress. Needless to say that our marriage is the strongest that it has been for years, thanks to the mature honesty of ones self.

As far as my future is concerned, I will never give up my dressing or my femself, and will not put her out of my life again. She is part of me and I have no desire to give her up. If anything, I want to expand on her and to develop her to her true self. I am not sure that my wife would want me to give Janice up. For, if I did, I am afraid that I would be giving up that part of me who is kind, tender and most of all compas- sionate.

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47-A-1 FPE

Dear Virginia:

During the considerable time in which I have been a TV I had never thought to express any philosophy of life or to explain my tendencies. This is because my behavior has seemed so natural to myself that I found no necessity for "explanation".

In numerous parts of Oceania, the men wear earrings or necklaces and in other societies of the Pacific all the bright plumage is affected by the men. In many parts of Africa, dancing is the perogative of the males who are gaily decorated with feathers, powder and paint. In some Ori-

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