majority of Belle Lettres on the same subject there is no mention whatever of any such division. According to the so-called non-fiction sources this status of 'Butch and Femme is to be found primarily on the East and West Coasts, and in the military services. This limiting to certain locality or environment helps prove my contention that this is not a natural state but an acquired one.

"I have never met a Lesbian couple equally divided either mentally or physically (sexually) into the roles of man and wife (Butch and Femme). I hasten to add many couples appear physically to be easily adaptable to the se roles, but more often than not, the so-called Butch type of the pair possesses the so-called Femme mannerisms. (Ah, confusion).

"Out of a sense of not belonging to general society comes an intense struggle to speak and sometimes act in terms comparable to heterosexual living. This seems to be mostly lip service rather than actually living these roles.

"Basically we are all women who prefer other women. Perhaps this implies a somewhat larger quantity of masculine personality traits in us all. If so, and I believe it to be true, then all of us are probably more masculine than the great majority of well-adjusted heterosexual women Why then should we ne gate the advantages we have by attempting to show an untrue picture to society? We are not for the most part living in a state of imitation in our

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