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and that any minute her parents were going to ask what the guy in the dress was doing in the middle of the living room. But then the flood broke as Mrs. Johnson said:

"And you must be Anne, Marie's told us so much about you, but you're even lovelier than she described you."

She came over for the final moment of truth and put her arms around me to buss my cheek, if ever I would be "read" it would be now!

Nothing happened! I responded in my softest voice, and told them how glad that I was to be with them, and to finally meet them. Every- thing worked out after all.

Actually, once we got used to each other, it was almost funny. Mr. Johnson, although a stuffy midwesterner, had a real eye for the ladies, and although it was quite embarrassing, just about stepped all over him- self trying to be nice to me. We spent a rather pleasant week, with him squiring us to dinner and a show, both Marie and I dressed to the hilt in cocktail dresses, a luncheon where I wore a blue wool suit and a flowered silk overblouse, and to the zoo in sweaters and kilts. I have to admit to this day that he is the fastest man at opening a door for a lady that I have ever seen. In a way I was quite sorry that they had to leave, I'm afraid that I was enjoying my new self so much that I kind of hated to go back to plain old Bill.

As things have worked out though, I never have really . . . As her parents were leaving, they insisted that we come at spring vacation to their farm, and we wouldn't have wanted to spoil their holiday. But the adventures of Marie and Anne, for two weeks on the farm are another much longer story, and suffice it to be said that Anne in calico was just as big a hit as in sweaters and skirts!

Several years have passed by now, as I look back on all this. Marie and I are married, and living in California. Anne is still with us, since both of us discovered during that week that we enjoyed it far beyond our expectations. We go shopping often, and get our hair done about once a week, mine is below my shoulders now, and in the last month has been done a radiant blonde. In complete contrast to the usual thing I wear a man's wig to work, and my own tresses at home. We visited her

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