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Look, this is a free WebSite ~ they don't give you many page options ~ for free you want Bill Gates already? Besides, if you've actually come to this page you've come through a Filtering System of sorts anyways (I didn't put the Photos Button first through VANITY, dear!) so hopefully you're interested rather than just curious. We're "Under Construction" here, as they say, so more will probably be added when I have the time. By the bye, I fall into the Diagnostic Manual category, "Atypical Gender Disorder" so if you're looking for Thrills you might as well leave now because you'll be disappointed.
Let's put things in perspective right from the start: if my fairy godmother (1) ever came back (she's WELL overdue!) and said that I could choose between realising all my dreams in Music or Gender ~ at the cost of the other ~ I wouldn't even stop to think. Music has always been my great love. Mind you, I can see the irony in that statement. I have a memory (age 2-3) of looking in a mirror and thinking, "THIS isn't me..." I started piano lessons at 6 ~ so the two thematic strands of my life have been inextricably intertwined from an early age. Music always provided both a consolation for the difficulties of being transgendered and a private means of expressing what I felt. Without music I doubt if I could have carried on all these years. Without being transgendered I probably would not have chosen a career in music ~ so I have THAT to thank for not ending up as a smug accountant or lawyer in somewhere like Akron, Ohio (Akronites: apologies!).
A few personal details for now: I grew up at the top of New York State, ESCAPED to Philadelphia for 5 wonderful years at the University of Pennsylvania. I first went to Europe when I had just turned 19, fell in love with England and moved here after grad school. I've lived mostly in the south of England (very little snow!) and moved to London (Putney, SW15) in 1984. London is HOME and always will be (although I often feel drawn to Prague and Vienna). I share a flat - bursting to the seams with music and books - near the Thames with my four faithful stuffed friends, 3 Rabbits: Bunny (white), Oscar (black with white markings) & Holly (brown) and, of course, Frida the Wolflet (who's VERY good at hiding!). Lovers, Friends & Acquaintances come and go, but The Animals are ALWAYS faithful. They've added their favourite Sites to the Links Page and now want their Own Page; knowing them like I do, they'll probably get it! (In fact, they DID! Clicking on their Very Own Applet will take you there.)  Being a freelance Composer, Musician and Musicologist, I don't know where work ends and fun begins; having a reversed body clock (they REALLY messed up the specifications when they made me!), I love the Night and, not surprisingly, the London Club Scene. I try to get out dancing at least twice a week.
I try to avoid getting stuck in the TG 'ghetto' as much as I can and revel in the broad diversity offered by this wonderful City ~ opera, concerts, theatre, cinema, galleries, museums, restaurants, clubs, shopping. There's never enough time to take it all in; I'm just finishing up a 20-year(!) research project ~ about 2 months to go! ~ and am planning a 'binge' once the 3rd volume goes off to my publishers.
Well, that gives you SOMETHING to go on for now...
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