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to appreciate how much I had to learn before I could achieve the standard of perfection I desired.

All too soon came the time to remove my finery. I had already decided that in the future every possible spare moment would be spent dressed as a girl, and shou mother remove her clothes from my room I would build my own wardrobe of feminine dress, including wig and shoes. Mother's were much too small for me. This Satur day afternoon set the pattern for every Saturday for the next three months. I quickly built up my wardrobe and soon found I was not satisfied with one complete outfit, but bought a variety of undies and several different dresses and skirts. Many towns were visited and no shop was ever used twice, each time I used the excuse I was buying a present for a sister or a girl friend. The wig and shoes proved the most difficult things to obtain and eventually I was forced to buy them by mail order, the parcels being explained away to my parents as presents for a friend.

Each year since we had first come to live on the estate, we had invariably spent one Sunday in the Autur on a picnic and blackberry picking expedition, and this year was no exception. All three of us were passionatel fond of the berries and Mother usually made a huge batt of pies, preserving the rest as jam or bottling them for the winter. So one fine sunny morning in September we set off in the car for the north of the estate, one of the valleys there had been flooded years before when a dam had been built and the banks of the reservoir were cove by the wild blackberry bushes. Mother packed a picnic lunch for the three of us and it was a glorious sunny day when we arrived at the usual spot. Unfortunately our da out was rather spoiled by the presence of an Air Force recovery crew, who appeared to be collecting the re- mains of an aircraft. They requested that we keep well away so we did not find out what had happened, but we concluded that an aircraft must have crashed and explo as the berries were covered with a fine white dust. At first I suggested we move to another spot where the ber grew profusely but Mother said she would be able to was them before use and as they were particularly good one! right there we decided to stay. Months later I was to be very pleased we had not moved.

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