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week I went to his office, and with one of his girls, I opened the envelopes, took out the money and gave it to her. Then I took the letters, orders, etc. back home and filed them. This quickly became a problem because although I could mail out merchandise from stock on hand, I couldn't very well pay for having new issues printed while all the money to do with this was being held by the receiver. So I thought for a while and got clever.

I talked to the post office superintendent and pointed out that the order was for mail addressed to Chevalier and that anything coming to the box addressed to Charles or Virginia Prince was personal mail and not subject to the order. He agreed so I promptly printed up a little statement of the situation and mailed it to all subscribers asking them to mail their orders in under my personal name. Most of them did and thus I survived or I should say Chevalier and Transvestia sur- vived. As it was I ran up a debt of over $3000 with the printer before I was able to accumulate enough to reduce it. When it was all over, there was, after a year, about $13,000 in the receiver's hands; $2,500 of which he named as his fee, and the final divorce settlement awarded $10,000 in cash to here, which came from impounds. But I was finally free, after an extremely hectic and frustrating year. It is hard enough to prove that somebody else actually DID something, but to prove that you yourself did NOT do something is something else again and that was what I was up against. Even my friendly psychiatrist, whom I had persuaded to see her before all this began and to whom she continued going during the year, finally had to admit that she was "disturbed.” I think that if he hadn't liked her and me and it had been just any patient he would have been willing to announce that she was paranoid. But I guess he thought that his making it official would give me a weapon against her. But what else can you call it when someone imagines a lot of things happening to her and against her that never really did happen. The whole year made a wreck out of me.

That general condition permeated my work and I began to get on less well with my partner in the business. We had operated it together for 20 years but things just accumulated, and finally, after the di- vorce was out of the way by about six months, I had had it. There was only room for one president of the corporation so let's one buy the other out. He had, it turned out later, already had overtures from another company in the same field, to buy the company once they got

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