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other hotels and public halls in the past, they just said O.K. and that was that. Of course I must say that England or at least London is much more open and accepting than most any place over here. I was personally very pleased that several of the wives came up to me after I had been introduced and thanked me profusely for having written the Wives book. They told me how much it had helped their marriage and how happy they were to have a FP husband. Honestly, that's precisely what they said. Once more it proved that if the wife herself can open her heart and head that there is something in FPia for her too. Only sad how many wives can't see it that way.

There was one foursome that was interesting because they lived within a few blocks of each other and the husbands had known each other casually but didn't know that each was an FP. Then unknown to each other they joined the Beaumont Society and eventually met each other at a gathering. Both wives were understanding and so it made a very nice foursome. I sat at their table along with the daughter of one of the couples and her boyfriend. It was the first time the daughter had met her father as a woman and naturally the first time the boyfriend had, too. He sat next to me and I bent his ear all during dinner explaining the fine points of cross dressing to him. But both he and the daughter seemed to accept the whole situation in good spirits and we all had a lively dinner together. The whole affair would make any group of American cross dressers green with envy. It was really a classy gathering.

Well, everything has an end so on Tuesday the 17th, it was TWA to Boston where I arrived without incident, went through customs and then waited around about three hours for the little puddle jumping plane that flew across the bay to Provincetown on the Cape. By taxi into town and to the same hotel I stayed at last year-Oceans Inn. The boys there, Mark and Horace, were glad to see me and were the same gracious hosts that they were last year. As usual they gave me a really nice room and I was very comfortable for the five days I was with them.

The fair was pretty much like it was last year with fancy dress balls, talent show, counselling sessions, seminars, and so on. We once again had a public meeting where four of us tried to enlighten the populace a bit about our way of life with a pot luck dinner in the basement of the church after it. This gave us a further opportunity to interact with

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