Dear Editor"

LETTERS

Dear Virginia:

I felt I should write you this note to let you know how much I am enjoying your publications. I have finished reading Understanding Cross Dressing, The TV and Wife, and several others. The biggest impression I receive from your writings is how similar my case is to most all other heterosexual FPs. And for 40 years I thought I was alone in my desires. This is what bothers me. How many young boys and young men are there who feel they are also alone because they have not been exposed to your writings? This is a national tragedy and somehow they must be reached to assure them that they have thousands of "sisters." I don't pretend to know how to do it but perhaps someone has ideas. I shudder when I think of the thousands of young men who are or will be going through what I did in my younger years.

I guess education and publicity are the answers. This will probably occur if you can get a foothold into some of the popular magazines read by the average American family-such as Sunday newspaper supplements or the popular women's magazines found in the supple- ments. The way you explain our compulsions should (I hope) convince the average person that we are not homosexuals or other figments of their imaginations. If I may be so bold to suggest it-this is the way you should go now. The explanatory material is written, now it has to be disseminated to the public.

Regards,

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Jeanne, PA-20-N