Transvestia

son. I told Jack I probably got my preference for femi- nine clothes because of my sister Cathy. I explained that when we played Cathy would curl my hair (which my mother made me wear long until I was nine) and made me wear dresses so that she could pretend I was her sister. Jack and I also discovered we had a mutual liking for motorcycles. Jack showed me his bike, a BSA Gold Star. He offered to let me ride it but of course I had to turn him down. A sheath and heels just aren't made for riding motorcycles. I told Jack I had a CB-72 Honda Hawk that I had been riding in the local enduros. It soon got dark and so I said I should leave and I asked Shirley to please get my clothes and help me remove my makeup.

Shirley laughed. "Don't be silly. Your mother hasn't seen you yet and besides those curls I gave you will last a week or more no matter how hard you brush them.'

I was horrified. transvestite and..

"But mother doesn't know I'm a

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"She does now.

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Mrs. Howell interrupted. I called and told her and she is very anxious to see you dressed as a girl."

After some argument I drove home wearing Shirley's dress and shoes which she said I could keep. Mother met me at the door and after a long look at me she took me in her arms.

"My little girl. She said. "You don't know how much I've missed having you around as my daughter since Cathy married and moved away."

"You don't object to my wearing dresses?" I asked.

"Object to it! Not when you look so nice as a girl. As a matter of fact I wish you would dress this way all the time."

"Be a girl all the time?"

"Or at least for the summer." Mother pleaded. "Would you mind being my daughter for the summer?"

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