HER SPONTANEOUS COMMUNICATION, AS SOUNDLESS AS IT WAS, STIRRED ME UP ALMOST TO THE BREAKING POINT, FOR SHE PROMISED A CULMINATION TO ALL MY FANTASIES WHICH HAD, PERFORCE, BEEN BOTTLED UP WITHIN ME SINCE MY WONDERFUL WIFE HAD DIED.

I KNEW THAT MY WIFE WOULD HAVE APPROVED OUR TAKING YVETTE INTO OUR HOME. SHE TOLD ME MANY TIMES THAT SHE DID NOT EXPECT ME TO GO WITHOUT DRESSING AND WITHOUT SEXUAL ACTIVITY IF ANYTHING WERE TO HAPPEN TO HER AS IF SHE SOMEHOW SENSED SOMETHING WOULD.

YVETTE NOW LEFT THE ROOM WITH A SIBILANT RUSTLE OF SILKEN TAFFETA, HEADED FOR THE KITCHEN WHERE SHE HAD STARTED OUR DINNER BEFORE WE HAD ARRIVED HOME. THE AROMA OF ROAST LAMB WAS NOW FILLING THE AIR, AND I, FOR ONE, WAS RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY IN SPITE OF THE EXCITEMENT OF THE PAST HOURS.

SNIFFING THE AIR, PETE WRINKLED HIS NOSE IN DELIGHT. "I'LL BET HER COOKING IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS HER OTHER TALENTS AS A LADIES' MAID," HE OBSERVED.

"HOW COULD WE BE SO FORTUNATE, REPLIED, "AS TO FIND SUCH A WOMAN?"

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"I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THAT," MY SON SAID, CROSSING HIS SMOOTHLY NYLONED LEGS IN A SKILLFULLY FEMININE FASHION, "AND I GUESS ONE THING SORT OF LEADS TO ANOTHER."

"How so?" | INQUIRED.

"WELL, IF YOU HADN'T BEEN SUCH A FINE SURGEON, MRS. BRAITHEWAITE WOULD HAVE DIED FROM THAT STROKE A FEW YEARS AGO. AND THEN SHE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AROUND WHEN WE NEEDED HER HELP IN FINDING YVETTE, 11 HE POINTED OUT. "I SUPPOSE YOU MIGHT LOOK AT IT THAT WAY, I REPLIED.

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"AS IT IS, MRS. B. ADMIRED AND RESPECTED YOU SO MUCH THAT SHE JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO HELP US OUT WHEN WE NEEDED IT,' PETE DECLARED.

"THE GOOD LUCK WAS THAT SHE KNOWS ABOUT TRANSVESTISM, LIKES TVS, AND COULD GET US SOMEBODY LIKE YVETTE WHO FELT THE SAME WAY,"

SAID.

"I THINK MOM WOULD APPROVE OF YVETTE, TOO," PETE STATED. "SHE WOULD WANT US TO TRY TO BE HAPPY."

"I'M SURE SHE WOULD, "I AGREED.

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