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The next morning we set Mrs. Briggs plans in motion, The Air Force doctors were informed I would cooperate in their research and they gave me the full details of what they intended to do making arrangements for me to attend at the hospital once each week for examination and treatment. Within a week Mrs. Briggs had found a suitable house in an isolated district, and in less than three had furnished it according to her taste, the dis- posal of her estate and industrial interests was left in the hands of her legal advisers as she intended to devote the whole of her time to my transformation and training. During this time I disposed of all my own furniture and possessions as I should be taking nothing except my fe- male clothes to our new home. We had decided I should not visit the new house while dressed in male clothes thus avoiding the unlikely chance someone might see me and recognize me in the future.

On the morning of the first day of my new life I made up very carefully and dressed in my best outfit, my under- clothes were a matching set in pale blue nylon in memory of the first pair of panties I had ever worn, over these came a scarlet wool dress with a short tight skirt which was the latest fashion amongst the younger set, with a contrasting duster coat and with my high heeled pumps an exact match for my bag and gloves I felt very much the fashionable young lady. As I stepped into the car I thought this is indeed the start of a new life. It was the first time I had been outside the garden gate wearing a dress, although I had been out a few times with girdle and bra under my suit. Now all those male clothes were being left behind forever. Mrs. Briggs had forbidden me to bring even one male handkerchief saying she would dispose of them all later. As we drove along in her car she told me she had decided I needed a new name to go with my new status and had thought "Susan" would be appropiate, and since this had always been a favourite girl's name I was duly christened "Susan". Then she asked if I would mind calling her mother as she was beginning to feel like one to me already, and in the circumstances I was happy to agree.

The six months we spent in that beautiful little house were some of the happiest of my life, I had lessons every day on everything from hair styling to hygiene, from

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