messages in the minds of my readers. I am afraid that “transvestite” and "TV" have lost their value as correct and accurate messages so from here on you are all FPs to me and hopefully, if this article sinks in, to yourselves too. Transvestia itself will of course have to continue with its name since it is now well established. I hope you will under- stand, agree and cooperate in helping establish this terminology.

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Your FP sister

Virginia

LOVE WHILE YOU CAN

If you're ever going to love me, love me now while I can know All the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.

Love me now while I am And then chisel it in marble

living, do not wait till I am gone stand the stone up in a lawn.

If you've dear, sweet thoughts about me, why not whisper in my ear. Don't you know it would make me happy just to know it while I'm here.

If you wait til I am sleeping, never to wake again.

There'll be walls of earth between us and I couldn't hear you then.

If you know someone was thirsting for a drop of water sweet, Would you be so slow to bring it, would you step with lagging feet?

There are tender hearts all round us who are thirsting for our love; Why withhold from them what nature makes them crave all else above?

I won't need your kind caresses when the grass grows o'er my face. I won't crave your love or kisses in my last low resting place.

So then, if you love me any, if it's but a little bit,

Let me know it while I'm living, so I can own and treasure it.

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Joan R.I.