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TRUE STORY

In December 1964 I visited a shopkeeper specializing in tight corsets, high heels, frilly underwear, and wigs, in my hometown of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Being an understanding person he has many TVs as customers. After I had bought a wig and a made-to- measure corset, he asked me if I would like to get into contact with other TVs. Of course, I said, but I do not know any. But I do he an- swered, and he then gave me an address. I was very happy, perh~~~ little afraid too - I had a key to TV-land.

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Like most others I once thought I was the only male in the worl terested in feminine attire. About 15 years ago I found Havelock Ellis's book on Eonism in a library and I got the most useful informa- tion in my life. From it I realized that I had many sisters, but how to find them? For several years I longed to meet another TV but by that day at the shopkeeper's I had already given up any hope.

A few days later on I saw Eva-Lisa, or at least her brother. As a mat- ter of fact we had already met several times in a hobby-club dealing with technical historical things. So it is, some friends of yours may be a TV or FP and you do not know about it. We had lunch together and Eva-Lisa informed me what was going on in Sweden and the other countries of northern Europe.

Having a wife who knows about her feminine interests but is non- understanding she had found it hard to bear her feelings by herself. She decided to do something in order to form a TV sorority and thus the "Klubb Transvestia" was born at the end of 1963.

Through some ads in a suitable Swedish magazine the club got

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