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deep red when he made his usual request for the bread and milk, but as the same time trying to appear that nothing was different. All Mr. Swartz said as he handed him his purchases was, "So it is a girl you now are. That is nice," turning away to wait on another customer. From that day on Alan collected the milk and bread without any further comment from anyone, and even his neighbors whom he eventually passed coming or going, seemed to accept him or rather her without apparent question.

Finally the long awaited morning of departure arrived when Alan and Richard said a last goodbye, at least for the time being, to their boy-selves and started off on a thrilling adventure as two very pretty girls. Betty had on a green and red plaid cotton dress and green sandals with medium high built-up cork heels. While Jenny wore a crisp white cotton blouse and short blue denim skirt with black and white loafers. Both boys wore pantyhose although Jenny argued for a girdle that he found more exciting, but had been overruled by his mother as not being suitable for a long car ride. To avoid the problem of managing their hair in the wind from the moving car. Jenny had developed an attractive hair-do of bringing the hair together on each side of his head in two separate groupings tied together with short white ribbon bows to match his blouse. Betty, whose hair was longer, wore his hair in a pony tail secured by a silver barrette his mother had given him as a going away present. Both boys had made up carefully with light colored lipstick and just a trace of eye shadow, remembering their mother's instructions to go lightly on the make-up to avoid calling undue attention to themselves. In the trunk of the car were their separate suitcases containing the results of careful planning and shopping tours over the past weeks. They could not wait for the forthcoming opportunities they would have to wear the extensive and varied lot of clothes they had with them, and which most importantly included not one single item of boy's attire. The plan was to travel leisurely, stopping off at motels for the four nights going and three returning, so that they would have a number of chances to wear their dresses in public while dining in the motel restaurants. In addition, they had scheduled several sight seeing tours of the towns and parks they would be passing through, which would provide more opportunity to show off their clothes. The two mothers had sensibly decided to wear pant suits most of the the time as being more practical and comfortable while travelling. A suggestion to their offspring to do likewise had been rejected out of hand as being a too masculine type of get-up, while they wanted only

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