HISTORY

SOME TRUE EPISODES FROM MY LIFE

ANN, 30-D1-FPE

Many times I have tried to write for "TRANSVESTIA” the story of my life. I always gave up as soon as I read some of the wonderful true stories written in such attractive ways which I will never be able to match.

On the other hand, having joined the FPE sorority, I have gathered all my courage and here goes.

First of all: I am now what they call in this country an "old bag” that is to say as a woman I might still pass for being in the fifties, or to flatter my vanity even more, I hope that I can still pass, with careful makeup, as a lady in her forties. You can thus imagine that my mas- culine self is "slightly" older.

All of what I am going to tell you is true, and no wishful thinking, to my knowledge, has crept in. However, so many years have passed by in the meantime and so many things have happened to me that I do not always remember exactly the right names, or places or years in which the events took place, and might mix them up. However, they did happen.

I will not bore our readers with too many details such as the im- mense thrill when putting on my first dress, as everybody has I guess felt it. I might, however, add that this wonderful feeling never ceased and is nowadays the same or even stronger than it was forty years ago. I am slender, medium size, have small limbs, somewhat feminine hips and said to have until this day quite pretty feminine legs almost no hair on my chest, arms and legs even without the help of shaving, which I do anyway to remove the remnants. Nevertheless, I never looked ef- feminate and indeed I never had to suffer from that in school or else- where.

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