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mention the book for two reasons, to indicate that I can and will write about other things than cross dressing and because of an amusing incident that occurred in trying to sell it. I had arranged to take a round the whole world trip and thus went to New York to fly to Europe. While I was there, I contacted a friend about finding an agent to handle the book. She gave me the name of a man in Prince- ton, New Jersey. I called him and arranged to go down to see him. A friend drove me down and we made the connection. The interesting part of this story is that before we talked abut the book, he wanted to do a "Reading" on me which involved holding my hand, and tuning in on my "vibes" I guess. Anyway, he "saw" me taking a trip (my friend had probably mentioned this to him) and he went on about it, and then said, "I see you only getting half way." I asked what this meant, where half way was and what would happen. He couldn't see that, he said, but something would happen when I was only half way around. Remember that fact for a while. I'll come back to it.

Since London is my favorite city, I planned to spend a week there which I did, giving a couple of seminars to two hospital staffs, made a tape for medical distribution and getting on the news on one station. My friends in Stockholm finding that I was going to be going from London to Helsinki, invited me to stop off in Stockholm to be guest at a big party one of the girls was throwing. So I rerouted myself there for an overnight stop. The party was great but a custom in Sweden is that if you want a drink you have to catch someone's eye and then you both drink a toast. Now that is great. If, a) you are thirsty and b) you are used to drinking. I don't drink much, but I was a visitor and so naturally I was looking around the room at people and what was going on and as an honored guest a lot of eyes were catching mine, and each time I had to acknowledge the recognition with a swallow or two. It got so that I had to keep looking at my plate in order to avoid more such toasts as it was getting to me. But as usual, the Swedes are very friendly, tolerant and interesting and it was a special night.

Next day I was off to Helsinki where I was scheduled to join my former roommate of the Circle Pacific and the Mexico trip of previous years. She flew directly to Helsinki while I had left a week or so earlier to spend the time in London and Stockholm. We met up all right, spent the night in the hotel and took off the next morning for Leningrad. That was the beginning of an eye opening and mind blow-

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