pocket he eased out on the sidewalk and walked hurriedly to his car. He smiled as he squeezed the soft nylon in his pocket, and as he drove he carressed the garment that had been on his date of this evening.

"What would Janice think of me, he wondered, if she knew that I was the one who had been stealing her underclothes?” Ted was a transvestite, a cross dresser, an all male young man, who thrilled at the touch of soft beautiful lingerie. "I guess she would ridicule and humiliate me, but I can't help it. Besides that, I always give her more than I take." "If I only knew her reactions, in advance, I'd marry her tomorrow. Somehow. . . . I must marry a girl who will understand my difference." Ted's face was shadowed for a while by his intense worry, and then he brightened up over the prospect of wearing the filmy panties that he had removed from the line after peeping in on Janice through the small hole in the corner of her curtain.

Friday night found them together again, and this time they had a ball at a carnival. The excitement of the night, a few screwdrivers, and some close snuggling had both of them wound up by the time she invited him in. Ted entered happily and as she fixed a drink he sat on the sofa looking over the pictures and art objects that filled the living room so tastefully.

She sat beside him and as they sipped along on the heady drink, he mentioned the coming Wednesday night, hoping she'd be available. For a moment she hesitated and thought for a way to bring up her plans and she took a long slow sip of the screwdriver to firm up the right words.

"Ted, honey, I have got plans for Wednesday". She allowed him to frown and show his unhappiness, “but”, she continued, “they could include you, I just don't know how to put in words what you'd have to agree to, to be included".

The truth was, she had for a long time been a member of a local society, and they had planned a charity fund raising idea. It wasn't a private club deal, but the town needed to add a wing to it's orphanage, and the women had somehow agreed to have a "beauty pageant" that was "different". All of the society members that were married pledged their husbands to participate in this "womanless beauty contest". She had been urged to enter

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