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they forced him to skip like a little girl on the back of the float. His frilly short skirts bobbed up and down, his petticoats rustling, sliding sensually over his panties and bare legs, his flimsy dress blowing up and down in the breeze. Watching below were crowds of people. Many seemed to know of his masquerade. All of Karen's friends on the route jeered and whistled in derision. Jeff also saw many of his own friends laughing and heard them yelling at him.

"Fairy! Fairy!" one cried, "Nice dress, girlie!" said another, "Let's see your panties!" cried out someone. Children began to run alongside, looking up his dress at all opportunities, laughing hysterically at the sight of his girlish panties under his mass of frilly petticoats. At the proper point in 'We All Fall Down', he had to fall with the other girls in a mass of silk and flounces, skirts in disarray, while everyone stared in glee at his pretty attire and horrified face. The nightmare of the procession seemed to last forever. Practically everyone he knew was out on the parade route and saw him. Jeff endured a horribly embarrassing ordeal he would remember always. It was a girlish living hell, an ordeal by intense humiliation for the young teenage boy, ridiculed in petticoats and frilly dresses by hordes of screaming, giggling girls and boys. Children with an eager and keen mind for reducing their helpless victim to a state of abject shame.

JEFF'S HUMILIATION

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"Ashes, Ashes we all fall down." Everyone stared in glee at Jeff's pretty attire and horrified face.