started to explain, and in explaining got my own explan- ation. After all these years Jack had suddenly come back, taken over from Betty and was deeply in love with Evelyn, in fact, as we looked back, had fallen in love when she and I had talked together over the fence. I asked mother what on earth I could do.

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"Ask her, of course, she said. "We know they all like you, she loves you like a sister."

"That's just it, I replied, "what will she say when she finds out, and how can I get her to love Jack instead.'

"You can't get her if you don't try, mother urged, "anyway there is nothing odd or unusual about being a girl-boy these days. All you have to do is explain your life and why you never think about being a boy. of girls these days marry husbands in skirts."

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Since we knew that Evelyn would tell her parents, though we were sure they would say it was up to her to decide; mother thought it better for her to explain fully to them first so they would understand and not be surprised when Evelyn brought it up. She was home the next day and as usual went over for mid-morning coffee and talk. What made it easier for her to bring up the matter was an account in the paper about a woman prominent in financial circles who had just died and to everyones surprise was found to be a man who had lived as girl and woman all her life. Mrs Lawrence said it seemed odd that she had kept her sex such a secret all her life when no one thought anything at all any more about deciding to live as one of the sex he or she was best fitted for. Mother said that likely he was so used to being a woman that he never thought of himself as anything else, and so never thought of explaining. she went on to say that there was such a case in her own family that she had come over on purpose to tell them about. Then she gave them my history and said that after so many years everyone had really forgotten that Betty was really Jack but only in body. She went on that the accident brought out that Jack was very much alive and in control and was deeply in love with Evelyn. Mr. Lawrence spoke first, "It has me beat. I was sure I could always spot a girl-boy. There is always some

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