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But with Cathy getting progressively older the poss- ibility of her getting up from bed after my activity starts is growing stronger. Also as she gets older she will of course be going to bed much later and in her teens: very late. When she was still a baby I never worried much and still dont about the baby boys, but with her get- ting older this thing takes on a new proportion. We have to divise a plan or modus-operandi that is practical and natural. So we began to wonder how to proceed.

Dorine and I never considered that I could hide my identity from Cathy, There are reasons for this. One, the closeness of parent-child relationships...scars that Cathy knows I have...my contact lenses. my voice and un- disguisable anatomical features. So from the start we knew we could not use the visiting "Aunt" routine. One of my old friends for years had his "Mother-in-Law" liv- ing with his family. This is OK if you are an expert endowed in certain physical respects, I'm not and couldn' 't

Cathy is fond of records. The new stars like Pres- ley, Avalon, Fabian--the ones girls even her age collect. So we started buying Ray Bourbon records and letting them remain out and around the house. We also bought the new Lynn Carter record too. Some of the Bourbon records are so fall of double-entendre we had no fear about Cathy's playing them. Our premise was to establish in a natural and even normal way that TV activity is innocent and for hilarity purposes. Ray and even Lynn supply reason for this. Cathy liked to play them. She asked several quest- ions too. We told her it was fun for men to dress up like women and act silly. We told her that the idea was sometimes to see how good a job of fooling people they could do.

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We definitely did not want to flaunt TV at her. Nor did we want to make it a thing for her to be proud of. We realized she would very likely mention her father's tivity to her friends. If we prohibited her mentioning it or gave it a furtive and shameful connotation we would deprive it of the innocenc we wanted it to have. Further