Tranwestia

an altar in a deserted Buddhist temple. He and his most trusted classmate were making bobby pins by splitting up ends of the joss sticks from the incense burner. Lili's brother then put two on himself, and his little friend helped him put on an additional one in order to create a nice hair-do. Well, my dear sisters, that was when poor little Lili pecked her way thru her shell.

During Lili's high school years, she realized that she must study hard to gain freedom and recog- nition. Therefore most of her time was devoted to her books. But, during many of the important holi- days, when the whole family had plans for an outing, she always found excuses to stay behind; partly for studying and partly for taking advantage of a once- in-a-blue-moon chance for complete privacy.

would carefully don her mother's or her sister's dress. At those moments, she really enjoyed the ex- perience immensely, because she was thrilled with excitement, an unusual pleasure and wonderful per- sonal feelings. Many times, she would sit in front of the largest mirror in the house clipping bobby pins to her hair to cultivate a nice simple hair-do, she would then let herself indulge in some sweet day dreaming. Often after this, just as every TV sister in the world does, she had a feeling of shame and guilt. She even resolved to herself that she would not do it again, but that decision never lasted long.

Lili, filled with ideas and desires, and with a definite purpose in mind, came to America. She was clever enough to pick the right place to settle down and then she started searching for her own world. One day she read in a newspaper that tickets were available for a masquerade ball sponsored by some charity organization somewhere in Brooklyn. Now, Lili was all excited, because she had an intuition that through this kind of opportunity, she might be able to find somebody who would understand and enjoy being a part-time girl, then she would not have to keep on suffering the terrible loneliness that most