TRUE STORY

HOW TO GET YOUR NAME IN THE PAPER

Mary Lee CA-82-B FPË

I have been a male woman for more than half my life. I have lived many lovely years in a feminine world, and I will always adore it. Recently I have begun to feel that my womanliness is again on the in- crease, inwardly and outwardly, to an awesome degree. The realiza- tion thrills me now, but in the beginning, years ago, a particular fem- miphilic experience occurred to me that brought with it suffocating shame and an almost physical misery. Abruptly, the thrust of my life was irretrievably altered when I was sixteen years old, already a fem- miphile, and a beginning junior in high school.

I had completed two years at Washburn, a large, affluent, metropolitan high school, and had been readily accepted into the predominating teenage peer-society. I was a member of the "in" group, and I had every reason to expect my final two years to be memorable and ego-fulfilling. But in October, the following one- column, two-inch item appeared on page one of the morning newspaper under the heading: Panty-clad City Youth Detained as Lingerie Thief.

Thomas A. Scott, 16, of 181 Spruce St., was ap- prehended last night in possession of girls ́ clothing reported stolen earlier from the washline of Mrs. W. A. Morrisey of 2124 Lincoln Ave., police said.

When discovered in a nearby potting shed, young Scott, a Washburn High School student, was wearing girls' pink, rayon panties, a flowered, nylon training brassier, nylon stockings, and a garterbelt, all identified by Mrs. Morrisey as belonging to her daughter, Barbara. In the

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