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beautiful floor length green taffeta robe which I also had made.

Betty came over often after this and usually I was wearing a blouse with either shorts or a skirt. She helped me do my hair and she and Linda fixed my make- up. Once she let me borrow a beautiful white picture hat. I hated to see her move.

The following summer Linda and I went to Miami for a short vacation. I had a simply fabulous time because I went out every night as a girl. Until you experience it you will never know the thrill that comes when a wait- ress says "would you girls like more coffee?" Or a sales- lady says "may I help you, Miss?" I had another sen- sational "first" on this trip. I went in and tried on a dress! This had always been one of my dreams and to have it fulfilled was really something. Actually, it wasn't really as perfect as it should have been because I was still pretty inexperienced and as the girl was helping me out of the dress by pulling it over my head one of my breasts (which consisted of two pairs of hose) came off with the dress. Talk about embarassing mo- ments!!

The next year I bought my first good wig from a mail order house. I forgot to mention that while in Miami, I did my own hair every afternoon in order to look good enough to go out at night. This was fine, but we felt that with a wig I could go out more often with less preparation.

In 1959, we went on a two week vacation and I traveled for one wonderful week as a girl. We went shopping on boat rides, to restaurants, in fact we did practically everything any two girls would do on a vaca- tion. There was only one fly-in-the-ointment. Our car broke down miles from anywhere and we had to be towed over 100 miles. We rode in the truck with the driver and frankly I was petrified the whole time. I needn't have been though because he and the men at the garage all apparently accepted me as a girl.

Two summers later I had a nice experience in Chicago.

I went into a large salon specializing in wigs and tried on several and finally bought one and had it

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