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"I think I'd like it,

I replied.

The next day mother took me shopping. We bought several dresses, two skirts, and six blouses. I insisted on two pair of ski pants and a pair of Lady Wellington boots. Mother didn't want me to wear pants of any kind but I had to have something to ride the bike with. In the shoe department the only pair of flats she allowed me were the Lady Wellingtons. I was fitted with a pair of pink and a pair of white spike-heeled pumps to match two of my dresses. A pair of black pumps with 2-1/4 inch heels completed our business in the shoe department. Next I aquired some feminine underthings. Mother thought that two girdles, a half dozen pairs of panties, four bras, a couple of slips and a waist cincher would do for a start. A pair of nighties, one pink and one blue, gave me some- thing to sleep in.

In the afternoon I kept my appointment at the beauty shop where Shirled worked. I was given a permanent, a hampoo, and a hairset. Shirley came over to give me a manicure as I sat under the hair drier.

"I see you've decided to remain a girl for a while, she said.

"Mother wants me to be her daughter this summer and I must admit that I like the idea.

"You would," Shirley said. "But you better be care- ful that you don't become so permanently feminine that you can't go back to being a boy."

"Oh, that couldn't happen, I denied.

"I wouldn't be so certain if I were you, she retorted.

When my hair was dry the curlers were unrolled and it was arranged in a smooth style that almost completely covered my ears. A curl came forward on each cheek and curled bangs nearly reached my eyebrows. My ears were pierced and gold keepers were placed in them until they healed. The beauty operator gave me some instructions on how to apply makeup and I was ready to go.

That summer mother insisted I learn to keep house