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membership. Before I was just me with a dress on.

My spouse has never met Linda and, of course, expresses no desire to do so. She has listened to me explain transvestism, as it pertains to me, by the hour, and she has also read all the books that I could lay my hands on. Her general attitude can be summed up in that she knows, she accepts, she understands, but she does not approve.

I am 42 years old, wear a size 12 dress and am 5'9” tall. I weigh 139 pounds (kept that way through a constant low carbohydrate diet and running three miles a day). I tend to be conservative in my portrayal of my feminine self. I suppose that my "time freeze" is the 35-year-old career girl.

My major regret is that I didn't "come out" years ago. I feel I would have been a "smashing" girl in my twenties and thirties. All of the photographs in this issue of Transvestia were taken this year.

A transvestite, we'll call her Calpurnia, Took a vacation this year in Hibernia. While kissing the Stone

Dislocated a bone

Plus suffering an inguinal hernia.

Dee Dee (CT-7-W)

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