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I heard Mother ask my cousin, "Look, Margaret, this piece of cloth I found in the patio is from your dress. How did you tear it?"

"No, Aunt," she replied, "I wore that dress last night but it was not torn nor did I come through the patio."

"Well, let's go see your dress," my mother said. Later, I heard them talking to my sister, trying to determine what had happened. Margaret assured them she had not gone into the patio, nor had any of the other girls. Yet the piece of fabric was from her dress, which was mysteriously torn, and they found that the cosmetics had all been used! Again they asked me what I had seen or heard. My cousin and my sister both agreed that I could have heard nothing since I sleep so soundly. But I noticed to my amazement that my face had been shaved! It I had dreamed, I thought, how did my face get so smooth?

My mother became very frightened, however, when closer examination of the patio showed hundreds of heel marks made by a high-heeled dancing shoe. She insisted that we must move away from this house, so in a few weeks we did.

How I wished to stay. If it was only a dream, it was delightful. If it was real, how nice it would have been to have had other nights like that one!

So, ever since them I have tried to find another house with such a nice "ghost"!

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He? She? Check here if in doubt

I KNOW the simple ways of telling male from female, but in case all else fails I listed a few of the give- away gestures helped by female impersonator Danny la Rue.

HE will turn his whole torso, pivot- ing from the hip.

SHE will turn her head only.

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Something to do with natural female reluctance to make a big

You are drinking a toast with movement in public," suggests Danny. another person.

HE clinks glasses, looking at the other person and keeps looking while

he drinks.

SHE clinks glasses looking across, but drops her eyes and drinks looking down into her glass.

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Coyness," says Danny, "is strictly

female.

You are asked to look at something behind the chair you are sitting on.

You have something stuck to your shoe.

HE looks down in front, cocking his foot to examine the sole. SHE looks down over her shoulder. Raising a knee upwards and out- wards is awkward in a skirt,” Danny

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explains.

Of course, I wouldn't say the gestures established your sex con- clusively-not if there's strong evi- dence in other directions.

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