RANSVESTIA

TRUE STORY

MY STORY

By Renee

In the Catholic religion, among certain categories of Priests or Sisters there is a ceremony in which, once a week, each one has to confess his sins in front of his other brothers or sisters. It is called, in French, "La Coulpe" from Latin "culpa" which means "sin". You may think it is the hardest thing to do but they do not think so for they know that what they say never comes out of there and nobody speaks of what he has heard. besides that, they know their companions are sinners, too, and under- stand them.

I feel like those religious people in writing my Tv story and putting my soul out in front of MY sisters in "our kind" of religion. I hesitated before in writing it. It is hard for someone to tell others of his intimate problems. Besides that, I know that - "le moi est haissable" - as it is said in French, which means it is disagreeable for people to read someone who is always referring to himself.

But now I know,through TRANSVESTIA that my sisters will understand me so I dare to tell my story. I know little about psychology so I will not lecture about the subject but, instead, let my heart speak and hope it will be eloquent enough to show my "real"personality.

The furtherest back that I can remember of my Tv activi- ties was at the age of four. One morning, while my parents were

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