Melissa, PA-12-S FPE

OASIS!!!!!

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Oasis! Water! It's been found! Yes, T.V. friends, I have discovered the Fountain of You! In Philadelphia we have the Fountain of You. Yes you may be you. An FP doesn't have to hang around some gay bar fending off advances that are not truly what we seek. A woman (G.G.), Blossom Paster, has opened her heart and her home to my sisters in a dignified, gracious manner. How lovely to act like the ladies we are and not worry about our security in some sleazy environment.

Blossom, as an adjunct to her profession of electrolysis, holds a T.V. party the first Saturday night of each month and in less than a year it has become a veritable haven for those of us lucky enough to have found her. She is truly concerned for the welfare of her clients and tries to know of every rip-off and con artist who has "taken" the very vulnerable transvestite.

Blossom pleaded with the assistant manager of a local Roaman's ladies shop to provide dressing facilities for male customers. Many FPs buy clothes only to slink off and secretly try them on. When they find they don't fit, rather than face a questioning salesperson they throw them away. Blossom was troubled by this and tries to guide her clients. She even accompanied several transexuals to the Temple University Gender Identity Clinic to meet the doctor and satisfy herself that they were on the up and up.

RARE? She doesn't think so. She is just real and she exists in Philadelphia. Of course, her most important thing is her business of be- ing an electrologist and that she does well. Her rates are the lowest in any big metropolitan area. As a client I can raise my voice high for all to hear as I now don't shave after having the most dense beard any human could have.

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