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festivities. They had a press conference scheduled for me which resulted in stories about our kind of people and about the Scandi- navian FPE groups in the two big Swedish dailies and in the largest Danish paper which had sent up a reporter for just that purpose. I was overwhelmed but I did my best and it went off well. We had an audience of maybe 60 people. There were parties, trips, meetings and explorations all week. Among these was an opportunity to meet a young Norwegian woman who was very accepting of the whole scene. Surprised as I am to be writing this today I had only known her about 40 minutes when we were in the kitchen smooching. The next night we had a party, Gerd was there and after it a number of our people were invited to a night club largely patronized by the gay set but we were invited by the proprietor because he was on good terms with the FP set, too. It was so noisy and crowded that the two of us went out- side and we were standing there on the sidewalk talking, with our arms around each other and occasionally kissing. When some of the queens came out of the place with their dates and saw we two girls necking under the street light it was a little too much. At least it proved my contention that FPs were straight.

At the end of the week we set off for southern Sweden by car. I had persuaded Gerd to go with us so we had a lot of time to talk and visit. We stayed overnight at the home of one of the FPs and his wife, a wonderful couple and at Dick's suggestion they gave Gerd and I a room together with twin beds side by side. We went to sleep holding hands-we were both real beat with all the doings. In my case it wasn't a sexual relationship to begin with. We just hit it off because each of us accepted the other as a person not as a sexual partner nor as someone who was little out of the ordinary-me. She accepted me as I was and she was equally happy that I accepted her as a person and not as somebody to "make it" with.

This was the night of the first moon walk and we watched the replay of it when we got up in the morning. It was only marred by the fact that all commentary was in Swedish.

We continued on to Helsinborg the next day and took the ferry over to Denmark. There we began another round of parties, interviews, etc. with the Danish girls. Erna, who was the original organizer of the Danish branch of FPE, had a party in her home with her very wonder- ful and understanding parents. It was a real international group with two Americans, two Germans, two Swedish, and the rest Danish.

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