RANSVESTIA

I looked at that tender face, with tears streaming down, the soft lovely hair that I had caressed so many times, and I knew . . . I would do any- thing for her, even if it meant that I would have to surrender my mascu- linity for a while.

"All right, Marie, I'll try. I don't know whether it will work, but you can do anything you want, I guess I just became Anne."

"Bill . . . oops

Anne, we'll make it work, oh I love you so much, to think that you'd even be a girl for me." Then mischieviously she said, "I bet you'll be a pretty one, too."

“Oh, oh.”

"Never mind, young lady, we have a lot of things to do if you are going to meet my parents tomorrow."

II

The transition, while not swift at all, was thorough. We discussed what must be done, so that I would look genuine, and realized that it would have to be completely flawless in appearance and manner to fool them. This would mean sacrificing my hair, eyebrows and all else to be real. We discarded the idea of a wig, since her parents expected a demure, shy country girl, and not one with a lot of big city ideas. I would have to assume a feminine psyche, to answer to my new name and iden- tity and to assume the mannerisms of the shy, docile, and modest Anne of Marie's letters.

Physical changes were the first to come, since we figured that I would more likely think like a girl, if I looked like one. I took off the rest of my clothes, and while Marie was putting them in the storage room with the rest of my things, I took a bath and with a sigh of regret and a "How did I get into this expression" I shaved my body and legs until not a single masculine hair remained. Stepping out of the bathroom after applying feminine deodorant, I realized that not a single stitch of masculine attire was in the apartment, and that I was very much on the road to being Anne.

I slipped into a pair of pink panties that Marie had left me. When she returned, she gave me a long line girdle with a six inch waist cinch. I think that we were both surprised at the figure and female lines that

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