ad for a book called "Men In Nylons." This excited me, for I had never thought that there were any like me. I sent for the book, but was told it was sold out. (I seriously doubt that there ever was a book like that, now). I was invited to subscribe to a list of people that had the same interests that I had. I did write for the list and evidently the list came into the hands of Virginia, for soon after I was invited to subscribe to TVia, which was just getting started.

Through TVia, I began to correspond with a person in a neighboring state and we soon talked our wives into our having a meeting. You can't imagine the thoughts that ran through the wives minds prior to that meeting. All has been confessed since then and this is what it was like, on both sides. "What if these people want to get us in a position to blackmail us?" "What if we meet some people that we had rather not meet in any circumstances?" "What if we do not like each other at all?" Well, fortunately, we did have a very good time, there was no intention of blackmail from either side, the wives were compatable, they had a number of things in common (other than TV husbands). I want to tell you that we do not have any better friends any where than these fine people and I only wish that I could mention their names, and the feeling that I just described goes both ways. (These friends drove 300 miles, recently, to spend a couple of hours with us at an open house 25th wedding anniversary).

In the past several months, we have had TV couples to visit us and we have enjoyed them all. My wife still does not understand it all, but neither do I. I just know that it is a lot of fun and it gives me the peace and contentment that other men I know say they get from fishing and hunting and other things that are apart from the ordinary life they face every day.

The boy is now grown and married and living in his own house, we have a little girl, 8 years old, that has seen what the boy never saw. We have not made it an every day thing for her, but more like a game. We feel that she will accept it more readily this way.

The one thing that I would like to say, before closing this, other than the book that Virginia has for wives, there is no one that can help con- vey your feelings to your wife better than yourself. No one can pick the right time like you can to say the things that need to be said. Sometimes the right words fall flat, just after a hard day at the office (if she works), or a disagreeable time in the kitchen.

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