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until I finished high school.

In spite of my dressing up, I did manage to date every pretty girl in high school, major in three sports and be all-high in the 100 and 200 yard dashes. I received five scholarship offers and ran in the National AAU track meet in New York City. In one particular meet, I won three tropies and four medals. I have over fifteen trophies and forty medals, mostly for track but a few for swimming. I was a Life Guard for eight years and have 83 rescues to my credit. I'm not mentioning this to brag, but just to show that I was interested in and capable of my share of masculine activities. All through high school, my femininity would run hot and cold. One day I would think that it was all over and I could lick the world. The next day I would be trying on some of my mother's clothing. That horrible defeated feeling! There was no one to talk to because no one could possibly understand. I naturally thought that I was the only person in the world that had these urges. I loved high school, made a great many friends and had a wonderful time not only in sports but also in school plays, four different clubs, the biggest and best fra turnity in the school; in fact, I was president of the fraturnity three times and captain of the track team in my sen- ior year.

All good things come to an end and I was drafted into the Navy. When I took my physical, the doctor asked me if I liked girls and I assured him that I did. I wanted to ask him about liking them so much that I wanted to be one, but I couldn't get the words out. I was sent to Great Lakes Center and actually found the training very easy. I was the sprint cham- pion for the whole base, had the fastest time for the obstical course, and was absolutley the worst shot with a rifle that ever went through Great Lakes. At the time, there were about 125,000 men on the base and about 200 girls working in the various canteens. One of these was mine.

I like to look back on.

It was a time of my life that

I didn't particularly enjoy

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