RANSVESTIA

I was amazed at the fact a wig could change a person's face so much. Until then, I had still had my own hair showing and I looked like a made-up man. but with the wig on, I became a real girl. I realized how flattering long hair is to a woman's face.

At the moment, the producer came in and said: "Are you through with him?" But when he looked at me carefully, he whistled and said: "Well, I have never seen such a lovely girl, the two ladies will never find you in the audience. You look so much like a real girl and a lovely one, too. But we will have to hurry, because the program is going to begin soon and I want you to join the audience while the lights are off in the theater, so nobody will notice your arrival.“

The other girl handed me gloves. She helped me to put them on and then she handed me a purse and showed me how to carry it. The lights went off in the theater and I left the room, following an usher who took me to my seat, lighting the ground under my steps with his flashlight to prevent me from falling down. I took my seat and watched the pro- gram that was going on.

Since I was not accompanied by any one, the people near me did not know me and did not seem to remember that there had originally been a man in that seat. Perhaps they thought I was taking the place of the man who was sitting there a few minutes before, anyway, they made no comment and they did not talk to me. I was sitting between two men and was afraid they might talk to me, so I would have to answer them and that would give me away because of my voice. But they seemed so interested in the program that was going on that they did not pay at- tention to me.

When the time came for the game I was in, the M.C. announced what was going to happen. He explained to the audience and the people at home watching the program, that among the people in the audience was a man dressed as a woman. The two ladies participating in the game would have to walk along the aisles and look for him. The one who finds him will win the prize.

The lights went on in the theater and the two ladies who were on stage came down the theater and started to walk along the aisles, look- ing carefully at every woman sitting in the audience. I was sitting in the middle of a row, so I was quite far from them. While they were walking and examining the ladies present, the camera was following them and we could see them on the big screen that was in front of the

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