We weren't hungry so we skipped lunch. Later I asked Norinne if she wanted us to move to a new place. Since our cottage was secluded, close to the University and very reasonable in rent, we decided to keep it. We spent the evening moving Bert and Vivian into the back bedroom and retired early as we would be busy the next day with registration at school. Our lovemaking that night was especially tender and deeply satisfying. We were indeed one.

As soon as we were settled into a routine at school as well as at home, we planned our wedding and sent out the announcements. I felt strange standing at Norinne's right, but now nobody on this earth could contest our marriage. We had many of the same friends at this wedding and they assured us that it was as beautiful as the first.

We 'dressed' each evening before dinner except when friends were coming over. Norinne graduated with honors the next spring and I received my Master's Degree.

We all spent another happy summer at the cottage. I again adminis- tered the hair grower and waited impatiently for it to reach my shoulder blades and become a blonde again. Betty decided she wanted to be a red- head - but in two weeks time-she, too, joined me in the blonde depart-

ment.

I also conducted my first experiments with my new hair remover. It worked very well on Nancy and me, but Betty's arm broke out in a rash, so she couldn't use it. I had developed the 'retarder' to the extent that we needed only two treatments on our arms and legs all summer. I wasn't ready yet to try it on beards and besides no one present had a beard. I hoped that by the next year I could develop a remover that killed the hair follicles without damaging the skin. It took two years, then I licensed my patent to a cosmetics company to be manufactured and sold under their name.

Norinne and I decided that until she became pregnant, we would live as Bert and Vivian. I transferred to another University to study for my PhD, and since all my records were registered as "Vivian J." I had no trouble passing the next two years as a girl student (with long blonde hair).

Pop retired from his job and he and Mom moved to the mountains to live as Sam and Nancy. Judy and Jimmy lived with us during the school