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invent for themselves a way of life compatible with the cultivation of the spirit-to their own taste, to be sure; but let that lifestyle be equally promotive of spiritual well-being, and we transvestites will undertake not to sit in judgment upon whatever it is they have a mind to do. Adibit social progress!

I have already sent in my request for application forms for member- ship in Tri Sigma and listing in the Directory. I cannot wait!

Yours,

Erika

Editor's Note:

The following letter is characteristic of not only many Nancy has written to me but of letters from others, too.

They are too frightened to give any sort of name or address and thus I have no way of communicating with them. If I could I would tell them to get a Post Office box and an assumed name. I can under- stand their reluctance to reveal their true identity but I wonder why they never seem to think of the Post Office box idea. Perhaps some of them will read this and act on the suggestion.

Virginia

Dear Virginia:

I haven't written to you for so long that I hardly know where to begin. I think, though, that the last time that I wrote things had begun to get better for brother and me.

I spent so many years in a suitcase that I really don't know how I stood it. It was so confining and so uncomfortable that those years were miserable. How I managed to keep from breaking out I'll never know.

When I think about it, it is probably because the masculine is also

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