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A boy

And next week my dream became a reality! delivered a note to Aunt Effie from Sue, one of the six girls on the show. She had found romance with one of the local boys and was going to get married, they were on their way to the local Gretna Green! A family con- ference was quickly called, for a replacement could just not be found on such short notice. What to do! The routines required six girls to execute! And then they all looked at me at the same time, and broke into roars of delight! I was sitting on the studio couch eating an apple and looked up at them in puzzlement.

"Jessica" they all exclaimed at once! "Would you take Sue's place, just for today?" Asked Connie. I stared at them dumbfounded! Yet a little thrill was crowding my breath so that I could not answer. "You can do the routines, said Connie, "just watch the rest of us and follow along. You have watched us enough to know what it is all about". I still could not answer! "Please, just this once", she begged, sitting on the couch beside me with her hands stroking my arm. I nodded dumbly, having no words in my mouth.

"Go take a

"Let's get busy, Mother" said Connie. bath now Jess, and you start on his hair Mother, while I go for the costume". With that she tore out of the trailer door while I stumbled over to the shower tent.

An hour later I was transformed into Sue's replace- ment! My hair was beautifully curled and tied with a large ribbon in the back to cover it's shortest area, my naturally long lashes were heavily mascaraed and a dark shadow added, my brows were plucked and shaped, my mouth made into a cute "bee stung" shape of the times, large gold button earrings screwed into place. A wasp- waisted corset of Aunt Effie's earlier days in place, the mesh theatrical stockings tightly drawn and the frilly panties and voluminous petticoats of the can-can costume slipped over my head. "I don't think we should try high heels at first", said Connie. "How about those ankle strap platform shoes of your's Mother? The heels are not so high really. They just look that way! With them on my feet we began the short way to the "Follies "tent, entering the interior through a flap in the canvas. The "girls" screamed with delight! They had been huddled

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