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mad if I want to wear a skirt but they don't get mad when Sis wears pants. But I fooled everybody today. I took Sis' dress and panties and a petticoat and shoes and wrapped them in newspaper and hid them in a hole inside the trunk of one of the trees. It's my special closet for Daisy. Tomorrow I'll get Sis' Halowe'en wig and I'll dress up by the trees and sit on the grass and then my movies will be real real. I can hardly wait until to- morrow and I hope it dosn't rain. I also hope nobody will ever find out about me and Daisy. Dad would get awfully mad. I guess he dosn't like make-believe games. Wouldn't it be nice if he did like them? What fun we'd have. Maybe he'd like to dress up too and I'd be Daisy and he'd be Mom. But of course he would have to shave

all that ugly hair. I guess he wouldn't like highheels and dresses, he's too rough and would tear them. Anyway this is just some more make-believe.

Sept. 9: Dear Diary: This has been the swellest day of my whole life. Honest. I made movies all afternoon and I was Daisy. Not just inside my eyes when I close them. This time I was her all over. I didn't have to close my eyes to make movies this time. I made them with my eyes open. What fun. I felt so good it was better than eating a whole gallon of icecream, better than going to camp, better than anything I've ever wanted. Sis' red dress made me feel swell. I wish I could wear it all the time, for ever and ever, Of course I would have to get a new one when I grew up because the dress wouldn't fit me so good. Maybe I'd get a blue one, like Miss Burns' wears. Today I even pretended I had lipstick and make-up on. I guess I must have looked real pretty. I couldn't see very well by the pond. The water is kinda dirty and the wind makes it all wavy. But I could see a bit of Daisy alright, red dress and all. I'd better get a mirror next time. She felt awfully good inside, just as happy as when I get an extra dollar when I do chores for Mom. I really forgot I was Tommy. My name was Daisy and I looked like Daisy and I walked around the trees and then I felt like dancing and I danced and danced until I had to sit on the ground from being tired. I had the funny feeling that I loved the grass and the trees and the wind and the sky very much. Just as if they were people I like, Maybe is Sis wore her dresses more often I she'd also feel as good as I felt today all the time.

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