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8) of being prevented by the press of run of the mill everyday require- ments from having the time to write some really important articles for other magazines and to make what I consider important and specialized contributions to human understanding of sex and gender which I feel peculiarly qualified to do.

9) In short of not being able to be my own boss any more; of having time to have my own experiences, to be able to travel freely without worrying about the load on Mary when I'm gone, etc.

10) of having my home in a continual mess with unfinished projects, correspondence, articles scattered all over the place and feeling con- stantly pulled by all of them (as well as by the housekeeping to "do me first". I'm a very youthful person for my age but I get kind of pooped from all this and the awareness that there is no way out. I don't want to just quit because there are still a lot of you present readers not to speak of millions of as yet undiscovered FPs to whom my efforts both are and might in the future be important. So what to do?

Well this piece is written to see if there are any of you out there suf- ficiently interested in this field that you might want to take it over. One of the limitations is that I have a considerable investment in stock even at cost which would have to be taken into consideration. Another is whether I would feel that any such interested party had both the ability and the love of her sisters to really handle the situation as I'd like to see it go. Of course I hasten to reassure everybody reading this that under no circumstances would I break my word to you concerning personal name, address and other personal information. None of this would be given to a successor without your permission to do so. That is a flat con- dition. If I should find someone interested and able to take over and we worked out some sort of a deal it would be announced to the reader, the nature and talents of the person discussed and you would be asked whether your records should be turned over to him. If you said no they wouldn't be.

But relax, there is nothing imminent at the moment. I'm just prompted to write this piece to acquaint you all with the fact that as I said I neither can nor want to go on forever and to see whether there are any potential successors among you. If there are let me hear from you. This afternoon I was bushed after writing the editorial about non-understanding wives and actually went out and lay down on the couch for a half hour and was bugged the whole time by the awareness that I had to get the rest of this issue put together this weekend. But it would have been so nice just to casually fall asleep - zzzz!!! What am I saying!! —

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