ARTICLE

FEAR

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"A feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence of danger, evil; to be afraid of, dread, uneasy, doubtful; in order to avoid or prevent."

The dictionary defines fear as something terrible, something that a person could and should live without. To have the kind of fear that makes each day of life a living hell is my story.

I have shown feminine interests since the age of 12, but a complete understanding of this and the many other questions that go through an FP's mind were not achieved until the age of 20. Prior to this understand- ing, I shared most of the same feelings as so many of you. Until the age of 25, I also had most of the same experiences that many of you have re- flected in TRANSVESTIA.

I believe that a very brief summary of these early years of my life will provide the necessary information to bring you up to age 25 in the life of this FP. Condensing the story of my early years will not bore you with a repetition.

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A child playing dress-up in Mommy's clothes ing it more often I found that I enjoyed it still mother's clothes interest in dressing would come and go --cub scounts—normal little boy-high school—still mother's clothes football-dates-Boy Scouts-growing interest in what clothes girl wear-college-started buying miscellaneous feminine articles- I started getting concerned about it—am I a homosexual, NO! what am I? what's wrong with me? - still my complete secret — accidentally heard the word Transvestite

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