carry their own lesson.

CASE #1. It has been ple of hours with

every troduced to my friends. are dealing with a nice

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my practice to spend a cou-

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new " TV before she is in-

I must make sure that we person. But in this particu- lar case Marie and I got our signals crossed and our new friend was invited to spend a week-end at our recently acquired country house BEFORE I had a chance even to meet her. On that particular week- end we also had the company of two GG's, people that had been only recently exposed to the world of TV's. They had met Susanna and one other friend and I had taken pains to make them feel that TV com- company was pleasant and harmless. I had undersco- red our overwhelming love of beauty, our fondness for things delicate, our appreciation and admiration to- wards things "feminine," and up to that point the reaction of those two GG's was quite satisfying, so much so that one of them had invited her brother and his wife to spend the next day (Sunday) with us.

About midday Saturday our "new" TV guest arri- ved. We shook hands and I asked for her name. (Let us call her Pamela now, to preserve her anonymity.) A glance at her outer aspect before the change reve- aled a fairly nice looking man, not too tall and a bit on the plump side. Quite a dark area where the beard grows, but nothing that could not be properly covered with make up. I asked her if she had been dressing for some time and her answer was yes. So, assuming that things would be allright I proceeded to fix myself up for dinner. We are all at the table except Pamela who has not come down yet. Suddenly, we hear steps approaching the dining room. We all turn to look at the door and there she is. Picture some one who should be wearing a size 20 dress and has manag- ed by some miracle of acrobatics to squeeze herself into a size 15. Add now the total absence of corset or waist cincher. All you can see are tortured ripp- les of flesh desperately searching for an exit. The hem of the skirt has given up trying to reach the kn- ees and decided to settle somewhere between the hip and a point midway to the knee.

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