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holidays in Wales. His idea was, it would give me the opportunity to wear feminine dress without fear of detection. He introduced me to all his friends and acquaintances as his niece Elaine, he even man- aged to get me a driving licence and National Insur- ance cards in the name of Elaine Barnett. With his help I became a very successful Female Impersonator and have performed in cabarets in this country and all over the continent, I even spent a couple of seasons in South America where people with my talents are more popular than in this country. So far I have managed to keep my life in Wales completely separate from my professional life and when you turned up I was of two minds about helping you, but when I thought about the difficulties I have had to overcome in my life, I decided the least I could do in the circumstances was to help you as much as I could. After you had left I came to the conclusion I had been very foolish and decided to avoid any further contact with you. Of course, it came as a very great surprise to find you worked for the law- yers I had commissioned to act for me, my original legal representative having died. Frank will not be able to act for me after today which would have meant I would be meeting you quite regularly and I felt sure you would recognise me sooner or later, so yes- terday afternoon after you left I wrote to your old firm and told them I wanted somebody different to look after my account. Perhaps you think that was not a very nice thing to do, but I'm afraid I had no option, after spending years building up two distinct personalities I could not afford to have everything destroyed without taking action. I expect your dis- missal this morning was the result of my letter. Tell me, what really happened?"

Jim told Elaine that her letter had not been mentioned and the reason given for dismissing him was because they had noticed his ears had been pierced, his eyebrows plucked and he occasionally used perfume. They had jumped to the erroneous conclusion he was a homosexual and used that as an excuse.

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