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She put a dainty blue ribbon around my head that tied into a cute bow at one side in front. I was next taken to the center of my room and Miss Cora brought out a box from her room. She took out a sort of a corselette. It was a rather narrow affair that went about the waist and had supporters for holding up stockings. I stepped into it and worked the very tight elastic up my body. What puzzled me was a "V" shaped appendage that was attached to the front of the garment. I asked what it was. Miss Gora smiled and patted my head and replied.

"Dear Elsie, you have so much to learn, here I will arrange it for you. It is a special garment that makes you flat like a Miss in front so that in any feminine garment you look and are flat and neat must like a girl."

Miss Cora too the "V" shaped part of the gar- ment from behind me and pulled the affair between my trembling legs and up behind and fastened it to the back of the corselette.

Next Miss Cora placed a new lovely bra on me. In the cups were "falsies" and the bra gave a standout eff- ect. She told me that she liked to help me with my dressing and undressing but that I would have to learn to do it myself. I had a time getting on my lovely nylon stockings to suit my "mother". My hands were rough but Miss Cora told me that they would be like a girl's soon. At last I got the nylons on and I stood as Miss Cora adjusted my garters. Then she trimmed my finger nails, my toenails haveing been cut before the nylons were put on. Miss Cora applied a clear polish to my nails and they fairly sparkled.

Now she brought out some black, shiny, high-heeled patent pumps. How high I felt in them, I almost fell flat on my face but Miss Cora caught me. She seated herself and told me to walk back and forth. How to de- scribe how I felt walking? I was all lifted up. I HAD to mince, wearing this corselette with that strap. She called to me and told me to curtsy. What a time! I tried to bend the left leg and dip down and fell in a pile at her feet. She laughed and as I started to weep