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VIRGINIA

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF VIRGINIA

I was in the process of making my reservation for another visit to Fantasia Fair and deciding that I would plan to arrive on Tuesday, October 17. A day or two later I received my copy of the Beaumont Bulletin which is the publication of the British Beaumont Society. It announced that they would be holding their 10th annual Anniversary Banquet on Saturday, October 14. I thought for a few minutes and decided that if I was going to be half-way to London in Boston and with the new transatlantic fares being much lower I might as well "go the whole distance." So the upshot was that I did.

It was sure the longest and most tiring air flight I have ever taken. Leaving L.A. airport at 12:30 Thursday noon we landed in London at 6:30 on Friday morning — having sat in the plane for nine and a half hours elapsed time. That is enough by itself but the jet lag screw-up of your system is something else. It's enough going to and from the East Coast but non-stop L.A. to London is much worse. Arriving at Heathrow at 6:30 a.m. I got through customs, caught the TWA bus to their downtown terminal and finally found a taxi to get to the little family type hotel that I've stayed at before, arriving at 10:30. After greetings, moving in, unpacking a nightie, I literally konked out and slept till about two o'clock, waking because I had to make a lot of phone calls to set things up for the following week. Then a couple hours of walking through my favorite store-Selfridges-a dinner and back to bed.

Saturday morning I had an interview with Dr. Randell who is the fountain head of the sex reassignment surgery in southern England. I'd seen him before several years ago and he wasn't inclined to agree with me very much but this time he was very charming, interesting,

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