EDITORS NOTE:

The several letters just preceeding were very nice, complimentary and satisfying but just so I don't get to thinking that my efforts are worthwhile, or appreciated, I print the following for balance. I am sometimes accused of printing only the nice and com- plimentary ones and not having the guts to print the negative ones. So by way of refutation I give you the following "love note". The ****s denote omissions from the original letter because there was a lot of personal and otherwise irrelevant material. You can evaluate it to suit yourself. Since it is negative I do not give the authors name to avoid any possible embarrassment to him, but he has a point of view, so let him be heard.

Dear Virginia:

I hope you read this letter soon because it will clarify a lot of things for you. But number one is that you are wrong, I do love you. Not just a distant feeling but a warmth of feeling that is strong and true. (I start off with 100 Brownie Points, but watch them disappear V.) However, I have my own philosophy and my own psychological methods for causing people to react in certain ways. I do accept that you, in your own way, have done a little for a lot of people and a lot for a few people. I hope that opinion doesn't upset you . . . it is meant as a sincere com- pliment. I imagine you feel that you have done a lot for a lot of people, perhaps you have but I have yet to see evidence of that and in fact see evidence quite the contracy, "unhappy people”. Like most people in business, in clubs, and in life you dwell on negatives and rarely touch on the positives. You personally don't live a negative life and you have reaped the rewards. Why then not approach other people with a posi- tive approach? ***********

1. I like being

The difference between you and me is considerable. a man and a woman. I realize that that is a concept hard for you to swallow but it happens to be the truth and if you weren't so far gone on your own little tangent you might wake up and realize that while most of your TVs envy and admire you, the TVs you lose is because they don't envy and admire your living as a girl . . . they aren't moti- vated to those goals. Now if you are ready to actually think a little and stop defending yourself from non-existant attacks you could think these things out for yourself. (Strange, when I have spent 11 years trying to explain and sell exactly that duality man AND woman that it should be "hard for me to swallow". I have moreover always dis- couraged my readers from seeking my full time status unless they found themselves in a similarly unattached situation. I don't encourage people to "go thou and do likewise" and I lived considerably more

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