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machine which I kept in the storeroom off the garage, and was soon sewing my own costumes and making my own jewelery. Carman Miranda was quite popular at the time and I made a two piece outfit to resemble her's. I was wearing this costume one evening when my mother barged into my room and caught me. She wanted to see in more detail what I had on but I jumped in bed and pulled the covers over me. She tried to pull the covers off but I refused to let her and somehow she gave up and left. I really tried to be more careful after that but still had a lot of close calls.

I went to college while still living at home and on several occasions went to class with my lingerie on under my boy clothes. My, how I used to worry about somebody slapping me on my back and discovering I had a bra on, but it didn't happen. I served in the army during World War 11, so had to get rid of all my things before I left. The only chance I got to dress during this time was when I was home on leaves and then just in my mother's clothes when she wasn't around. My father was in the service also so I did not have to worry about him being around. After the war I went away to college and soon found myself collecting a wardrobe again. I remember on one occasion my fraternity entered a comical float in a parade and wanted some of the members to take the part of girls on it. In the past I had always refused to take a girl's part. acting like I wouldn't be caught dead dressing up like a girl. But this time I just decided I would volunteer myself. At first they said that they had enough "girls" for the float but when I told them that a girlfriend had al- ready gotten me the clothes they said okay. Of course the clothes were my own which I had kept well hidden, as I lived in the fraternity house. The float went right up the main street of town and was seen by many thou- sands of people and I enjoyed every minute of it.

While in college I became engaged to a lovely girl and after graduation we were married. Before the wedding I destroyed everything assuming that marriage would end my TV desires. But as we all now know I was mis- taken, for my wife would go visit her folks fairly often, and during these periods I found myself dressing again. I rigged up my camera and took quite a few pic-

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