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"What way?" asked Miss Quinn, her professional curiosity triggered by the medical allusion.

"Why, er--you know, raising him as a girl."

"As a girl???"

"Why, yes. Well, as I was saying, I simply raised him as if he were a girl, He had a private tutor, later went to a private high school--every- thing went very smoothly. I was happy with a daughter --and he seemed happy, until--until--'

"Until?"

"

"Well, after so many years, I began one day to see--my daughter was--changing. Suddenly, very subtley so that I was the only one who noticed it-- I acquired a son. Oh--he'd known for years that he was a boy, but it never seemed to matter. Now all of a sudden it did."

man.

"Onset of puberty." said Miss Quinn.

"What?"

"Onset of puberty. The boy begins to become a

"Oh-well, perhaps--that is--no! Nothing of the sort. I mean, I couldn't really let that happen-- not then."

"You wouldn't have any choice. said Miss Quinn.

"And you a medical person." reproached Mrs. Boyle. "Nothing simpler--I just took him to see my physician once a week."

"Oh." said Miss Quinn, remembering a strapless gown. "I see."

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