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TWO LITTLE GIRLS

By JENNIFER SUE

sleeves were trimmed in pretty lace. An intricately-patterned medallion lace overlay decorated with satin ribbon rosettes tapered to the waist. I looked totally femme and felt so girlish!

As I admired my reflection in the mirror, I felt so right to be dressed that way. I almost regretted missing this during my first eighteen years. But at least I knew I'd have a long life looking just as young and pretty as I did now.

I must have spent an hour on the phone with Pete this afternoon. It just feels so good to know that I have a big, strong, handsome guy to take care of me.

I'm trying to control my excitement. By this time tomorrow I'll know if I'm to inherit Miss Malloy's fortune.

Journal Entry: October 26, 1997

I'm still in a daze. The lawyers were quite impressed with my quiet, demure appearance. They didn't understand how Miss Malloy knew that she'd die touching a male, and that the male would become a female.

They read the will.

Miss Malloy had insurance to pay off all inheritance taxes, so I'll get everything. I own over a million dollars worth of shares each in General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, and IBM, plus another fifty million in hundreds of other stocks in a high-yield portfolio. I own sixty percent of the real estate holding company that owns four enclosed shopping malls, a dozen fifty unit plus apartment complexes, ten other apartment developments, and seventy five percent of the largest construction firm in the area.

They estimate that value to be about two hundred fifty million!

I own several ranches in Texas and Oklahoma, and the oil wells that go with them for another seventy five million. I also own thousands of acres of forest land in the nearby mountains to form a private controlled game reserve worth

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