throat, the whole body and anatomical structure was similar. But the poses, surely she must realize she hadn't posed for these. "Al, where...who is this? Her look was one of unbelieving surprise and astonishment!

"I told you it wasn't you..."

"Yes, but it is, I mean it's my face and my figure and oh Al, I'm confused. What is this, I don't understand."

"It's just a girl you don't know and she just looks like you. Besides you don't have a swim suit like that I'll bet."

"I do though, I have one just like it."

This I hadn't counted on at all. In fact when I bought the suit I was sure that it was the only one of its kind. The clerk could have been mistaken and still..oh hell, I didn't know, it seemed like a nightmare unfolding in her car. The pictures all scattered out over the seat--it was truly an impossible situation. Pictures I had innocently taken of myself dressed as a girl in a bathing suit only to discover that I actually remarkably resembled a girl I had graduated from school with and...oh brother!

"Well Al, I just can't imagine anyone looking just like me but I didn't pose for these. Maybe you tried some trick photo- graphy and superimposed my head, still it's..., oh hell" she even cried.

Slowly I picked up the photos and put them in the folder. I tried to piece it together. The sisters or rather Betty had found them and believed them to be snapshots of Doris Wilson, they told her and naturally Doris came out to see them, that was it. Doris drove off.

Finally

I resumed work on the tractor. Stuffing the pictures in my pocket I thought over what I'd tell my sisters about Doris's visit. I imagined that I'd simply tell them it was a girl I knew and that she had come to the farm to pose for me. My sisters and folks knew of my photographic hobby. For some time when I first started tak- ing pictures of myself in female clothes I did my own developing. I did not risk the local shops for fear of disclosure-but my skill was not such that it satisfied me. So I finally became brave enough to have local shops develop the shots and finally I sent them away since color had to be sent off anyway. The thing I had-

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