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ACTING LIKE A GIRL -3

"ACTING LIKE A GIRL"

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"ACTING LIKE A GIRL"

by Catherine as told to Dawn Bell.

Prologue

RINNNNNNG... RRRRIINNNGGGG.

I opened my eyes and slapped at the LED numbers glowing in the dark. I hate mornings. . .waking up, making up, doing my hair. What a chore!

What's worse??? I could put it off no longer. My publisher has given me a big advance for my "life story". Famous peoples stories are usually boring, self-possessed "fluff" stories, revealing nothing new but perhaps an old romance. Maybe that's why I've put off sitting down at my tape recorder for months now. My story, even when I think about it today, seems so unreal...but it's all true. It is one that I need to tell in order to fully understand it myself.

My real name is Ken, but only a few people know that...the rest of the world only knows me as "Catherine". My friend Dawn Bell has been kind and patient enough to take my recorded autobiography, and "ghost write" it for your reading enjoyment.

Here goes!

It all began when I was accepted to attend the prestigious Rosemount College for the Arts, a very private coed college, that was located on a secluded country estate in the picturesque hills of southeastern Ontario in Canada. It provides complete privacy from the distractions of city life. The school's campus is distinctly separated into two building complexes, one for the boys and one for the girls. In most respects, it's as if it were two separate private schools sharing a central administrative staff. The girl's and boy's building complexes were separated by a small river and are in turn surrounded by several acres of forest. Consequently, the mixing of the sexes took place only under the administration's supervision.

There was one aspect of "mixing of the sexes" that is of particular importance to my story. The drama faculty was made up of three women who had studied drama at some classic acting schools in Europe. In some peoples' minds, "classic" could be read "eccentric", or "avant garde". They were of the firm opinion that it was very beneficial to keep the sexes segregated on stage until their last year in school. What this meant is that in the boys' drama classes some boys had to take the female roles, and