RANSVESTIA

neapolis which she helped to arrange. After that baptism she undertook to appear on a number of shows on her own, adding her bit to the effort at public education. She was very open about her femme-self having discussed it with the minister of her church and others. She was fortunate enough to discover an understanding woman several years ago and they were married. I know that this brightened her life very considerably and I am personally grateful to her wife Carole for understanding and loving one of my sisters. Her passing is a loss not only to Carole and to me but to a lot of other friends that she had made in the FP world both in person and by mail.

We can only rejoice that Louise, Anita and Myrtle Ann led fuller lives because they had met and embraced their own inner other selves and so experienced and expressed more of their total humanity than most people.

BACK ON THE FIRING LINE

For a couple of years now Jeanne has been handling the mail for me after Mary had to relinquish her help due to the press of her own business as an electrologist. Now Jeanne, too, has had to discontinue her help to me. She got a very good full-time job which, with other responsibilities just takes up her full time. So here I am, back at the same old stand, doing it all alone again. However, as a matter of simple financial survival I have also had to go back to being a chemist on a part-time basis. While this brings in a few needed dollars it also uses up some needed time since I have to stay over- night there in my motor home to avoid driving 40 miles to and from each day. This, therefore, reduces the time available for everything else. So if you do not get quite as quick service as you used to you will know. Please be patient and realize that I am doing my best.

Please also when you write and want a reply, include a stamped, addressed envelope and write your questions on a card or sheet of paper in such a way that I can just check them off or answer yes or no. That way I can answer it when I read it and get it all back to you immediately. If I'm required to write a letter of reply, your question just goes to the bottom of the pile and waits its turn. Correspondence is, of necessity, a low priority matter. So make it easy for me and it will be quick for you.

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