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ADVENTURES IN WOMANHOOD

While my last marriage was in its terminal stages but before the divorce had gotten underway, I had decided that there were several things I would like to do in the interest of furthering my feminine life. One of these was to travel to various foreign lands as a woman on tours with other men and women and to be accepted by them unquestioning- ly. Those of you who have read TVia over the past few years know that this I have been able to do a good many times and will be doing again this year. The second thing that I wanted to do, was to assist in a nursery school where I could be in a mother role with children. Due to demands on my time, which are too heavy already, I have not been able to fulfill that ambition.

The third ambition was to learn to dance and it is in relation to that that this "adventure" is written. Many years ago, around 1964 or so, my wife and I were good friends with another FP, Frank, and his wife. One day Frank had to go to San Diego on business and his wife got the idea that it would be a good experience for me to go along in the role of "wife." She checked with my real wife and she too thought it would be a good idea. I was asked how about it and readily consented. My "husband" and I thereupon drove to San Diego and took up a room in one of the nicer motels. He had to go about his business using the car in the afternoon, so like any other wife, I got dressed, took a taxi and went downtown to go shopping. I had a nice shocking pink cocktail dress that I had brought along in case we went anywhere in the evening and I thought it would be fun to have a cocktail hat to go with it, so that was what I went shopping for and found.

That night we went to the Hotel Cortez for dinner and afterward went to the lounge where they had a small three-piece combo playing. We had a couple of drinks and Frank asked me if I'd like to try dan-

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