I don't know how you'll do it, but I hope you can in some way get it publicly known that there are groups such as yours, and your “Trans- vestia" Magazine. Alcoholics Anonymous does a tremendous job. It has saved hundreds of thousands of people from being a waste society. In these days of government spending, every taxpayer needs to be saved! But much more important, of course, is the personal loss involved. You, too, just as AA does, can save homes, save husbands to their wives, fathers for their children. I wonder if we'll ever know how many homes have been needlessly, foolishly, broken, simply because the wife didn't have any understanding of the transvestite urge in her husband! And then just the sheer misery of the individual who experiences these woman-urges, as a very real and vital part of his being, calling for ex- pression, for life and who feels he must deny and stifle that living part of his own being this personal misery should be relieved.

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Let your magazine and your associations become known. Guard yourselves from those in society who won't appreciate you at first, and like AA, guard the anonymity of your members. But let your work, the fact that you exist, be made more widely known, for the people who need you. What you are doing is a saving work, which needs to be more widely known, so that those who really need you can be brought to you. This is serious.

upp it

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and Tribune Syndicate

"Take my word for it, Jimmie... it's YOU!"

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