RANSVESTIA

The noise of the heels were softened as they came down the stairs. Into the room came a young girl, touches of make-up about her lips and eyes, wearing a demure, pale-green, silk dress at about knee length. Her hair was very long, brown, and brushed straight over her shoulders down to the small of her back.

"Tyler," the voice was a soft whisper. "How are you?"

"Fine," Hamilton's voice was matter-of-fact. "It's nice to see you again, Alan." He smiled while his younger brother took his hand and sat on the floor beside him. "I still can't call you Linda, I'm afraid." He looked into the happy, smiling face. "Are Mary and the kids with you?"

Alan-Linda shook his beautiful brown hair. He sat up onto the sofa, letting go his brother's hand, smoothing his skirts and crossing his nylon-covered legs. "No, Tyler," he pouted. "They're visiting her mother's, and you know how welcome I am there." He grimaced. “I came home by myself this weekend."

Later still, as Hamilton helped his wife dry the dishes, he was staring, without really seeing, at Alan, thoughts of how wrong his analysis of the case had been, leading him almost to arrest an innocent party, when his wife spoke to him. She had followed his gaze to Alan, relaxing so femininely on the sofa in the next room. "Don't," she said. He looked at her blankly. "Don't judge," she whispered fiercely. "After all, nothing can change the fact that she'll always be your brother."

TEE-VEE TIPS

June Daye MA-4-B

A simple little plastic pocket taped into your handbag along one inside surface will give you a handy place to keep your house or car keys in that delightful jumble that our purses always seem to become. Use a piece of heavy plastic salvaged from a store package or old comb case, and tape it into place at a handy corner inside your handbag with the colored tape obtainable in most food or hardware stores.

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