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  Halloween and Cross Dressing in San Francisco Mark - Louanne - Me A s a young adult I loved Halloween. I used it as an excuse to be decadent, to do things I would not generally do. It was a night of outlandish behavior that could include drugs, alcohol, and smoking cigarettes. I smoked when I was young but quit for the last time when I was 25 and moved to Eugene. However I would allow myself to smoke on Halloween. I rarely dressed up as anything specific but rather would just select a hodgepodge of things that might suggest something interesting. I was never much of a planner so I would usually be stuck with whatever I had laying around or more likely whatever my friends had laying around at the time. I n the fall of 1978 I had recently moved to San Francisco and was working down the peninsula in Burlingame. October came around as it seems to every year and that meant Halloween was coming up. Lacking any imagination for a costume, I decided to dress as a woman. We,

  The Last Time I Saw Donna I t was spring in Eugene in 1977 when I got a surprising phone call. It was from my ex-wife Donna. It caught me completely off guard. I had tried to find her a time or two but with a last name of Jones and little idea of where she might be the search was futile. Once we confirmed who each of us was we settled into a comfortable conversation. Donna had ended up moving back to the Reno area and was living in Sparks, Nevada. We talked for a bit. Donna gave me her address and phone number and we made plans for me to drive down and visit her. I t was late in the day when I arrived at Donna's place. I was nervous. I wasn't sure how I would feel and also wasn't sure what to expect. Donna greeted me at the door. She looked good, pretty much just the way I remembered her. She now had a son (Joshua) from her second marriage but he was at a friend's house for the night. We sat across from each other, chatted, and had a little something