would remain friendly but one or two dates was about all I could manage. I sometimes thought I was not forward enough.

This was also a rural area and even more of a farming country than it had been at home. Homes were even fewer and farther apart. I had, of course, kept my aunt's suitcase with me. I could dress in my room, then slip on my outer clothes and go out. I could then take off my pants and shirt after getting into the woods. Shoes, of course, could neither be worn nor carried very well and presented something of a problem.

But fine sleep wear was no problem at all. I'd been afraid to wear a nightgown at home for fear Dad or Mother, or even my brother, would look in on me during the night. Now, of course, there was no one to bother me.

I was to stay there four years before coming home to enlist in the Air Corps. Barracks life did not easily lend itself to such pasttimes and so the next few years were nearly free of it. I began to think that by the time I was discharged, I'd be free of the habit. I was surprised to find out how differently than me the other fellows felt and lived. There was a newspaper acc- ount of a fellow sho had been picked up in woman s clothing work- ing as a bar maid. It brought comment from every corner.

There were periods of relapses on my furloughs, but then I'd call around on the different girls I'd known before enlisting. I was still writing to about twelve. So it was that I got back from a furlough to receive a very scolding letter from a girl who had learned that I'd gone right from calling on her to another city to see another.

She said that she had planned for a long time that we should marry and she thought now it was time I settled down and married her as soon as I could get another furlough.

I had dated this girl perhaps less than any. Of course, I just never had thought of marriage at all. But this direct app- roach reached me and I was all full of plans. In very short order we were married.

Her background was very much like mine and, excluding sex, we got along very well indeed.

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