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THE FLAME (con't) from TVia #34

"For the first time, I realize why it always took you so long to buy anything and I have to admit that I en- joyed every moment of our shopping excursion. However, I will probably enjoy shopping tomorrow for the things I really need and can use as much. Do you know that most of the time I forgot who I really was and everything seemed quite natural and comfortable for me. I replied.

Marion, that is what I want to talk to you about now. This is the first time, in a long while, that I have seen you so relaxed. I know that you have been looking forward to your vacation and I feel guilty knowing that instead of going away, we will be spending time shopping for furniture, an apartment and clothes. But, perhaps if you remained as Marion for the next couple of weeks, can kill two birds with one stone by accomplishing what we have to do and giving you a vacation from yourself. I will try to see that you do things that you would never do as Ed and at the same time give you a better under- standing of what I do while you are at work. After all, a vacation is getting away from the familiar and usual and you must admit that this will be the case if you agree with me. What do you think?"

I remained silent for a while thinking over her suggestion and finally said, "what you say is true to a large degree, and if I am completely honest with myself, I would thoroughly enjoy the experience. But Adele, I seriously doubt if I could get away with it and would be embarrassed as the devil if I was discovered.'

"If THAT is all that worries you, forget it, she replied, "let me give you some facts as they pertain to the last few days. She gathered her thought for a moment and then continued, "in the three days we have been in the hotel no one has thought of you as anything but a woman. Even when we shopped no one suspected, other- wise you would never have seen the inside of a woman's fitting room and actually be fitted yourself. Even when you spoke, no one noticed anything unusual.

"But Adele, I was with you at all times, I replied. "I knew that if I got in a mess you could rescue me!"