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usually one at a time, but on the whole an overly quiet person, too inclined to withdraw into a private chemical laboratory. My brother's mind was set by then on Chemi- cal engineering and he has never even wanted to change it. I, on the other hand, had no plans at all; except to dress up whenever possible, always in borrowed things and not very often at that. And so on to college

The first year, I made a significant purchase lipstick, which we carried at all times. Being now a woman of property, I selected my own name and became Sheila. 18 years later, when I first had occasion to write it down, I realized I didn't know how to spell it! A few more possessions, and I began to develop a personality of not a very nice one, but definitely different from that of my serious brother. Any bright young engineer would avoid driving a car all over Pasadena, as I did one evening in 1933, wearing full make-up, jewelry, oleand- ers in the hair, and not much else! (Los Angeles, perhap but not Pasadena). I really scared him that night. Whic

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was probably what I wanted most to do. While at that time I'd never heard of a secondary personality of oppo- site gender, it was important to me to impress him with my separate individuality (I'd read Jekyll and Hyde, but the relationship to that pair only dawned on me recently)

College ended in graduation, without honors but with out disgrace, in the middle of the depression. No jobs offered, so he went East for graduate work. I disposed of my possessions a pitifully small package and went into retirement for quite a while. He met a wonderful girl in New York; they were married and I was left out in the cold. What a prize package she got! The famous Herbert Philbrick's wife had it easy, with only a Commu nist spy, an FBI agent and a respectable business man in one body. It may be of interest to state that he and I were both virgins at marriage and that there has not bee any infidelity in 25 years, so she could have had it wor

Suprisingly, the next four years went quite well. But when his wife got pregnant, Sheila came back; wiser, to ugher and considerably more determined than before. I began to accumulate things at once. There was a little world war on, but my brother was ruled essential, so I missed being drafted. I became an artist at improvising