so happy I kissed Miss Elliott and she seemed to love my doing it.

So when I went to meet the bus I was all ready to surprise Margaret with my beautiful long pendants. But when she got off the bus in a beautiful tweed coat with deep fur collar and fur hat to match, she also had dangling earring as long as mine. She explained that in California all the cousins wore them, even the boys who loved to dress as much as she did, and were among the pretty girls in the picture, so her mother had had her ears pierced then.

Although Miss Elliott had been so nice about in- viting Margaret I was a bit shaky when I took her in to indroduce her. But I did not have to worry, they got along fine from the first. Miss Elliott asked her a lot of questions about her trip and how she managed to be a girl for the whole time. A few days later she explained her special interest in that.

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She had a large fireplace in her living room and we often had a wood fire in it on cold evenings. would sit around it talking quietly or just watching the fire burn and coals drop. She started to tell Margaret that something during her trip in the summer had interested her in boys like her. Of course she said she had read historical cases of men who have lived as women, and there were often cases reported now of boys or men who had been discovered by some accident when living as girls. But when in New York she had been invited to stay with the daughter of an old friend while she was waiting for her boat. One afternoon they were going shopping. Waiting for her friend to get ready she happened to pick up a small magazine called Transvestia that she had never seen before. Glancing through it she was surprised to find it was written for and about men who loved to dress as women. She became very interested in the explan- ations for the love of feminine things and some of the letters from Transvestites, which she explained such persons were called. When her friend came down and saw what she was reading she gave her a rather pec- uliar look but said nothing. That evening she looked for the magazine again to finish what she had been

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