Jerry Lynn-Wisc.

CHRISSIE-PART II

Continued From TVia #89

FICTION

Then exams were over and the long summer vacation began. Being home all day and dressed as a girl all the time now, was it any wonder that gradually I began to change. The change was al- most imperceptable. At least to me. And that made it impossible to fight. How can you fight something that you're not aware of? Or that may be in your imagaination. And when everybody around you thinks that there is nothing to fight anyway. What could I have done?

The clothes were all right. They were comfortable except for that darn corset. But that seemed to have loosened as I hardly felt it anymore, even though mother now easily could lace it completely closed. It never occurred to me that it was my body that had changed. And the clothes were light and colorful, cut a little dif ferently... but so what? Unisex was in, right?

Those aprons never ceased to bug me. It seemed to change my whole role in life. People always look differently at a girl in an or- dinary dress than at one in an attractive apron. For some reason it makes you more of a girl if you do things in the house, and wear an apron. But after the clothes came the hair bit... the makeup. And becoming more and more accomplished, I also felt more feminized. The constant remarks from the triumvirate of mother and

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her friends did not help either. Nag nag ... nag ... all the time. A girl does not do that, a girl does not sit like that, a girl should walk like that. A girl should watch her posture. A girl should always be dainty and take good care of her clothes. You have pretty legs dear ... make sure you keep them shaved neatly.

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