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"Oh, I am sure I will I replied. I immediately called Olive and asked her to come over, without telling her how I was dressed or that my hair had been fixed.

"I can't come over right now, " she replied, "can't you come

over here?"

"I don't know whether I can or not," I replied, I'll call you back in a few minutes."

I told Mother that Olive had asked me to come over to her house, and Mother replied: "Well, why don't you go?"

"Do you really think I should?" I asked.

"Now my daar, I thought we had agreed that you could not ex- pect to stay in the house all summer, and that you would wear your dresses wherever you went, she protested, "you have on a beauti- ful dress, and your hair looks lovely, and it seems to me that if you are going to be a girl this summer, now is the time to be- gin, so I would suggest that you go over to Olive's house."

Without further discussion, I went out the back door and walked across to the back door of Olive's house, and knocked at the door. In a moment Olive came to the door, and it was clear that at first, she did not recognize me, and then, when she did, she opened the door, and exclaimed:

"For goodness sake!

I simply did not recognize you! Come in and let Mother see how simply lovely you are! I can't get over how lovely a girl you are, she continued, "the hair-do makes and the makeup have made a wonderful transformation! "

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We went into the house, and Olive presented me to her Mother. "Mother," she asked, "do you recognize this beautiful little girl?"

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"If you had not told me he was going to change into girl's clothes this summer, I never would have recognized him, she re- plied, "but what are you going to call him now? He doesn't look much like his name is Robert, now does he?" she inquired.

"Of course it will have to be changed to 'Roberta', Olive replied, 'Robert' will never do."

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