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one day's stay, and after we had repeated our story, she would not help her manage the house. Georgia a- greed and consented to become her assistant. She could sneak off and shave periodically and yet continue to live as a woman. This suited Georgia very well because Georgia and the landlady became like two lost girlfriends and Georgia fell more and more into her role. She liked housework, enjoyed mothering the girls, and within a few short weeks was acting like she had done this sort of thing all her life. I too found myself extremely happy. I found myself acquiring a carefully selected wardrobe and becoming almost forgetful of trying to Escape to Sweden. I even dated a couple of soldiers and found dancing with them quite enjoyable. I especially enjoyed flirting with them. I was actually beginning to think female.

But escape suddenly came to mind when the dress shop in which I was working needed a new shipment of supplies from Sweden. It depended in part for imports from Sweden to supply itself and the manager had usually gone to pick out the items several times a year. For some reason he was unable to go and requested that I do so. I asked him if it would be all right if I made it a sort of holiday and with his consent Georgia and Hilda came with me. We simply boarded the regular mail ship which commuted between Hamburg and Sweden. We arrived in Sweden hours later. After looking over the fabrics, putting in our orders, the three of us did the town. After a whole day of touring, we requested i Hilda to return with the merchandise we had purchased, and then we slipped away from her. The next morning we presented ourselves at the British Embassy with two suitcases of clothes and indicated that we were British prisoners, recently escaped from Germany. The clerk at the Embassy showed us into the Ambassedor's office and we repeated our story to him. After hearing us say we were escaped prisoners, the Ambassedor looked closely at us and said he was sorry, but that it was contrary to British policy to allow women to serve in danger areas and that it was impossible for us to be escaped prisoners. We were so used to acting as women that the remark struck us funny and we laughed uproariously. Then we both blurted out that we were not women but men, and had escaped from the prison camp in this garb several

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