testants. So Mary suggested (we had an all-night poker game the night before) we draw high card for the honor. Well, SHE cut the cards and permitted everyone else to draw first. No one drew higher than a seven, that is until it was Mary's turn to draw. Would you believe, an ACE! And it was her deck. No wonder she won the poker game the night before with that same deck. (A word of apology about that poker game... It is very difficult to play girl 100% for seven whole days and nights. I think two or three lapses are excusable. After all even Janie was drawing clown eyes with her eye-liner on the last evening, and every one volunteered to put on boy clothes to go for groceries at least once during the week, plus, all but Karen smoked a minimum of one cigar each.)

You wouldn't believe the amount of photos that were taken. We had two garbage sacks which had to be emptied daily; one contained gar- bage and the other Poloroid and Kodak trash with burned out flash- bulbs mixed in. That Janie took over 100 pictures! (Mostly of herself! and she said she isn't vain.)

We didn't see a great deal of Connie. Her brother had to work in Houston much of the time and on the trips to the resort, we had need of her brother to straighten our mechanical problems. But when the last evening was over and we were headed back home it was Connie her- self who drove back to Houston. Sally and Sheila had changed clothes and their brothers were driving back when they passed Connie. Thinking that Connie might have an extra beer, they pulled over and asked. Connie passed two beers across into the other car, and Sally's brother tried to twist off the top and discovered it was not a twist cap can. They pulled up again to Connie's vehicle and explained the problem to which Connie replied, "Well, Ah been twistin' the tops offa these."

About the only scarey things that happened (aside from the first hour or so of everyone being dressed and the realization that there was no one in boy clothes to answer the door if needed) were the episodes of Sheila's admirer and the ferry-boat trip. In the case of Sheila, she went swimming nearly every day and sometimes several times. It soon be- came apparent that she was being thought of as a possible romantic interest by a neighbor about five houses down the beach. Each time Sheila went out to swim, this little man would come out on the beach about 30 minutes later. Of course, Sheila would in each instance, with- draw and slowly, in her best model's walk, retreat back to the house. It was irritating . . . the fellow never once pursued anyone else, just Sheila. On the last day Sally told Sheila that she could do worse the

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