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children went along and they were instructed to call me aunt. We arrived at the scene of the parade and took our places alongside the other people who had gathered to watch it. I noticed that one of the display windows in the store behind us had a ledge sticking out and thought that if I could stand on it I would have a better viewpoint. I mentioned it to my wife-to-be and she agreed. We started to get on the ledge and two young men about our age noticed us trying to get up there so gallantly they came to our assistance. They then stayed around and began to talk to us and tried to make dates but we told them that we were with our parents and could not get away. After the parade we then started our trip home. This being my first time to wear heels for more than a minute or two I had to take them off and walk a good distance of the way home sans shoes. Just to think that I had spent several hours dressed as a girl in broad day- light was like a wonderful dream to me.

The happy day finally arrived when Marianne and I were married. Even though she had seen me dressed as a girl on numerous occasions I had never told her that I enjoyed dressing as a girl. She thought all along that I only did it because she wanted me to. Two months after we were married I rotated back to the states and was stationed in Texas. Marianne joined me three months later. Whenever she would go shop- ping and I knew that I would have a few minutes alone I would dress.

One particular day she went walking with another German girl who was our neighbor. I thought they would be gone longer than they were, so hastily I got some of her clothes and proceeded to dress up. I had no more than got the dress zipped than I heard them returning. Like mad I started taking off clothes. My wife then knocked on the door, luckily she had left the key at home. As I was still undressing it took me some time to get the door open. When she came in she asked me why it took so long, and finally I told her that I had been dressed. Although she had suggested it several times in the past before we were married she could not understand why I would do it on my own. I still didn't tell her that I enjoyed dressing as a girl. I think now that I should have as it would have saved us a lot of sorrow later on.

Soon after this incident I was again shipped overseas. This time to Taiwan. Again we were apart for three months.

After my wife arrived in Taiwan everything went smoothly for awhile. All the time though, I was dressing whenever I got the chance and occasionally she would suggest that I try on something of hers. Then

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