line--just like a girl's!

He began accumulating a huge wardrobe of various types of feminine finery. He would dress in various costumes, pretending to be the type of girl he thought would wear a particular kind of clothing.

The wealthy young woman in the penthouse would be his real self, he decided. Her name would be Char- lene (and from this time on he always thought of him- self as Charlene). She would wear only the most expen- sive clothing. She would install a maid in the other bedroom to do the cleaning, cooking, shopping. Char- lene would shop only for her own clothes.

The maid Annette, dressed in appropriately inex- pensive clothes, walked to town, "purchased" a new Chevrolet, then shopped for a complete wardrobe, which she put away in her bedroom. She spent many pleasant hours cleaning her mistress' apartment and cooking for her.

The electricity went off, and Charlene went to the basement to turn on the auxiliary electric system. She saw that the gas was low in the tank and that she would soon have to find more or be without electricity. She knew that there would be other things to do, like start- ing the pump on the well when the water system broke down. She decided to have a manager to take care of this work. So she became Mrs. Ackerman on these occ- asions.

Mrs. Ackerman was a middle aged widow with grey- ing hair, and strong enough to do the heavy work. The clothing already in the manager's apartment was too large, so she threw it away and Mrs. Ackerman got a new wardrobe. She was a little old fashioned, so she wore bloomers, heavy corsets, longer dresses and low heeled shoes. She drove a Volkswagen when shopping for herself and used a panel truck when hauling gasol- ine or anything for the building.

Before Charlene knew it, autumn had come with cool nights and nippy mornings. It was turning cold early, and she heard geese overhead flying south much earlier than usual--a sign of a hard and early winter.

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