YOU AND YOUR DARLING PEGEEN! IT WILL NOT BE LIKE WORK TO ME!"

"I CAN AFFORD IT, EASILY," I REPLIED, "AND I AM SURE YOU WILL FIND SOMETHING USEFUL TO APPLY IT TO."

"THAT IS TRUE, SHE ADMITTED. "MARIE AND SEND MONEY TO OUR FAMILY IN FRANCE. OUR PARENTS, THEY ARE TRES VIEUX, AND HAVE A HARD TIME."

I WROTE HER A CHECK FOR $200 ON THE SPOT AS A RETAINER AND BONUS FOR AGREEING TO TAKE US ON AS HER CHARGES, AND WE BOTH KNEW THAT THIS WAS IN ADVANCE APPRECIATION OF HER DISCRETION IN A SENSITIVE CAPACITY, AS PRIVY TO OUR INNERMOST SECRETS.

AND NOW, OUR MISSION ACCOMPLISHED BETTER THAN EVER WE EXPECTED, PETE AND I WERE REHASHING THE EXCITEMENTS OF THE EVENING. HE WAS ESPECIALLY KEEN ON HIS NEW FRIEND LESLIE, AND THE CONVERSATION KEPT COMING BACK TO LESLIE'S ASTOUNDING SET OF GIRLISH BOSOMS.

FINALLY, I COULD CONTAIN MY CURIOSITY NO LONGER. "WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE BREASTS LIKE LESLIE?" I INQUIRED. "IT CAN BE DONE, YOU KNOW. QUITE EASILY AT YOUR AGE."

PETE'S EYES GREW WIDE AS HE CARE-

FULLY CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF HAV ING HIS BOYISH CHEST REMODELED.

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"NO, DAD," HE SAID FINALLY. NOT KNOCKING THE IDEA OF LESLIE'S HAVING THEM. AFTER ALL, HE DOES LIVE FULL-TIME AS A GIRL AND GO TO A GIRL'S SCHOOL, AND 1. SUPPOSE THEY ARE A BIG ASSET IN HIS SITUATION. BUT I'D RATHER NOT LIVE FULLTIME AS A GIRL, AND THEY'D JUST GET IN THE WAY WHEN I'M PLAYING BASKETBALL AND BASEBALL AND ALL."

"YES, GUESS THEY WOULD," I REPLIED, SMILING. "MAYBE IT'S BETTER FOR PART-TIME GIRLS LIKE US TO USE THE REMOVABLE KIND."

"I THINK SO," PETE SAID. "IT'S NOT ANYAS IF LESLIE HAD REAL GIRL'S BREASTS, WAY. ACTUALLY, THEY'RE VERY CLEVER FAKES.'

I WAS SURPRISED AND PLEASED AT MY SON'S SUDDEN BURST OF SELF UNDERSTANDING HE INSIGHT INTO LESLIE'S SITUATION. REVEALED BY HIS REASONING THAT HE WAS NOT THAT HE ENJOYED TRANSSEXUALLY INCLINED,

AND

BEING A BOY IN SPITE OF LIKING TO PLAY AT BEING TO ME, A A GIRL. AND THIS WAS,

SOURCE OF PRIDE AND RELIEF.

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