years in the man-woman duality than the writer has as I am consider- ably older, so I think I understand the experience. — V)

My approach to TV is open and honest with friends, neighbors etc. How many people know? Dozens of close friends, hundreds of ac- quaintances, and the close friends are always drawing somebody new to the group. Blackmailers, eager cops, kooks, oddballs maybe they have passed our way but when you have such a large gathering and in complete acceptance it really takes all the zip out of anyone trying to capitalize on it. Yes, you mention that when I have done as much for TVs as you have, come look you up. I have and I'll pass way beyond what you do and in a shorter time. I will always consider what you have done as marvelous for your era and your time, but TV can be approached in a much happier light in this day and age. (I can't help but note that it is much easier to walk in deep snow when somebody else has pre- ceeded you and broken the path. Everything is easier today than it was 10 years ago. I wonder how ready the writer is to face a federal criminal conviction and be put on parole for daring to publish Trans- vestia, as I had to do? - V.) You are again like most people, too wrapped up in fighting symptoms to see the cause and how to combat it. Think about it! (I did, and I recall the number of readers who have said, when I wrote something discussing cause "I don't care about what caused it, I just want to enjoy it." Too bad he hasn't read 10 years of editorials dealing with just this area V) Each individual you work with and try to help is great. Your appearances on radio and television are great. But only by making TVs mean something to other people personally can we ever expect open-hearted acceptance. (This I quite agree with which is exactly why I have given dozens of lectures to both lay and professional groups wherever I can get an opportunity to try through education to make TVism understood. It's why we have had open house meetings at Alpha-FPE and many non-TV guests at many different FPE functions around the country-V) I have it here, TVs and non-TVs enjoying each other. You might become frustrated at one aspect though. Nobody cares to talk about TV. We look like girls, act like girls and are treated and thought of as girls. We don't sit around gabbing about deviationism. (Who does?)

If you have the impression that I am not working toward your goals then your goals are not what I thought they were. Your efforts are laudable but you are too unwilling to admit that a few hundred TVs who accept each other in a time lapse of 11 years is not a hell of a big accomplishment. You have managed to make a self-supporting busi- ness out of helping a handful of people... big deal. For the damage you do those people in the atmosphere you create you nullify almost

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