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the townspeople as well as having a great dinner whipped up by some of our own members who proved what good cooks they were.

But as last year and the year before, the main pleasure of Fantasia Fair was in meeting old friends, sharing ideas and experiences, walking around town and having meals at various restaurants, etc. It was very successful in this way and provides a real service to the FPs (and others) who attend by helping them just to "live" in the real world and do as everyone else does.

We had a boutique where various clothing items brought by the girls were sold to others. One day a lady from the town came in and inquired about the boutique and said she had a coat she would like to sell for $40. I was there talking to others and after she was gone and the coat was just lying on a chair I thought well, what the heck, let's try it on for fun. I did. It was in beautiful condition, originally a very expensive let-out mink coat, and it fitted perfectly. How could I argue with fate-I shelled out the $40 and took home a beautiful coat. It was claimed by some that I shouldn't have taken it because I wouldn't have much use for it in California. Would you believe that while I am typing this, the evening news is telling everybody that it will be below freezing tonight in L.A.? Who says I'll have no use for it in L.A.?

Well, eventually it was all over and we drove back to Boston Sunday night. Monday the Boston chapter had a meeting in a Howard Johnson's and we had invited the staff of the Boston Gender Identity Clinic to join us so that the professionals could have some contact with the FP lifestyle by people who were comfortable with it rather than those disturbed enough to seek help. I think we made a good impression.

The next day Ariadne Kane, who runs the Fair and the Outreach Foundation, and I did a segment on the show Today's Woman on WBZ-TV. We had some interesting conversations with the several women who help put the show together. The interview itself went off very well but the interviewer said—as many others have before her- that you really couldn't get into the subject in a 15-minute segment and wished that there had been more time. We have had several inquiries as a result of the interview so I guess "we dun good" as the saying goes.