RANSVESTIA

How did that happen? And whatever is that heavy gold ring on the third finger of your left hand. It looks a little big for you. Perhaps we should put some tape on it to make it small enough for a pretty little fingers like yours."

"All right, girls," I retorted. "Go ahead and kid me. I was brilliant and it was kind of fun. In a few weeks, one of you is going to write Ted in my name and tell him I'm too young to be tied down so I'm returning his ring. But in the meantime, I just might point out that he's a lot handsomer than most of the boys you three date so don't get too smart."

And that is the bizarre story of how I was going steady with two people at once . . . one a girl . . . and one a boy.

APOLOGY FOR DELAYS WITH TRANSVESTIA

I have to apologize here for the long delay in the appearance of TVia No. 79. It truly was not my fault. I had No. 78 AND No. 79 complete and in the hands of the typographer when I left for Europe Aug. 30. Instruc- tions were to complete them and print them for distribution Sept. 15 and Nov. 15. But hassles and snafus between the typographer and the printer led to long delays in both. When I got home Dec. 1, TVia No. 79 hadn't even been printed yet so it was not available for mailing till about the middle of the month.

This issue has been delayed by virtue of the fact that the typographer that I'd used for about 3 years sold out. I had been led to believe that the new owners would carry on with me but when I was ready for them I was informed that they were too busy with in-house material and wouldn't be able to handle TVia any more. So at the last minute I had to scurry around and find another company, which I fortunately was able to do but much time has been lost in the process. I'm sorry but such is life in the publishing business, especially when you are small.

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