her boy friend, but she had been too backward to mention her plans for that night, much less ask him to dress as a girl for a beauty contest. He leaned forward, and as she told him about belonging to the woman's group, and what the benefit was for, and what the benefit was, his mouth hung open in shock. Seeing this, she said, "Oh, but Ted, I didn't mean that I expected you to dress up like a woman. That was their idea. I just wanted you to know where I was going. If you wanted to, you could just buy a ticket and sit our front and watch. But, If you think you could be in it, you'd get to be with me while it was going on, up until the time came for you to parade. But honestly honey, I couldn't ask you to do this for anything in the world. You are so modest anyway. But with your slim body and thin features, you would make a very pretty girl".

As she said this, he gulped, and nearly strangled on his screwdriver. The red of his blush crept up and covered his partly receded hairline, as he considered the possibility of him walking out in front of men and women, dressed as a woman and trying to act like one, publicly at that! She tried to change the trend of thought to ease his embarrassment, but he overcame his redness and asked: “Do you actually think I could be made to look like a girl?"

She kissed him fully on the lips and said, “Honey, you'd wow'em so that you would take the prize".

He asked what it was and found out that it was a $100.00 outfit of women's clothing to be given to the wife or girl friend of the winning beauty contestant. "I'll do it!", he said, confidently, “if you'll help me to dress up".

She laughed and said in a tender, passionate and hopeful voice, "I will if you'll let me pretend all the way there, and back, that I am you and you are me".

"It's a deal", he agreed huskily, and they stood up together to kiss and embrace as if a great plateau in their lives had been reached.

They talked for a while about what he would wear, and since he was her size they opened the closet where she kept her party frocks and best dresses. She went down the line of pretty things

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