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their high speed journey to pick up a foot traveler in this low spot. Feeling a twinge of concern, I rapidly evaluated the roadsider. Clean cut, very neat, no beard, short cropped hair, dressed nicely, no hippy pack or sleeping bag or dog, so, why not?

He entered the pickup cab with a "Thank you, ma'am, I began to think no one would ever stop," the words being spoken in a soft, throaty voice.

After the trial of getting up the steep hill from a standing start, I asked, "What is your destination?" The reply, "Back home in the L.A. area. I came up here for a few days to visit some of my college friends."

Following a few moments of chit chat on college and his friends, I advanced, "Since you are still in school, what is your major?" The answer, "Psychology," rather stopped me for a moment. I thought to myself, this could be most interesting so I introduced myself, "Since we seem to have found a mutual interest, I am Beverly Cousins. Call me Bev if you like." After a little chuckle, he replied in that low, throaty voice, "My friends all call me Tony." So "Tony" and "Bev" it was for many a mile.

The chatter evolved from one type of psychology to another until I learned that his special interest was child psychology. This de- veloped a further line of discussion and I asked if he had gotten into the psychology of behavior yet, and particularly if he had been con- fronted by a person who insisted, or dreamed, that they were not what they really were, but were playing a role as someone else, even to the sex opposite to that which they were born. I was going to be an op- portunist and see what came next. Tony's reply was that he wasn't sufficiently advanced into the full course and hadn't had any direct experience with such a person, but, just the thought of meeting some- one like that might prove most interesting. I tried to work the con- versation into what might be the background or environment of such a person and what might be the motive or the feeling of gain behind such a projection. This didn't produce much comment from Tony ex- cept that he felt that the feelings and actions of a person of that type would be most interesting to observe, evaluate and try to determine the cause.

By this time many miles had gone by in such a seemingly short span of time that I suggested there was a quite nice roadside cafe up