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"It's Marty Salter's femme name, too," said Nadine apologetically. He'll likely be in the new show.

The thin man snapped his fingers. "It might be even better to leave her as David Rennick," he said. "Yeah, that's it!" He was excited. "Get all of the photographs you can of him like he just was—as sexy and femme as you can. Hey! We got a really great idea starting out here! We can make this David Rennick into one of the most talked- about personalities on the stage in years!"

David didn't enjoy the photo sessions as much as he enjoyed the interviews with the reporters. It was different being sexy and female for a single photographer who was as straight and disapporving as he could be of David and the strip he did down to a little polka-dot bikini. In a white, strapless evening gown, cut up the side to expose his fishnet stockings, David's newly bleached and lightened hair a man over his bare back, David felt relatively at ease in putting on the reporters with outrageous lines. As well, he was a hit wherever he went-escorts provided by the show's backers-usually male though not always.

Cindy was the only person he allowed as his dresser. Now that Jason was born, they'd gotten into a little routine before his shows. He had his own dressing room, and though Cindy still wouldn't let him make love to her when he was in drag, she would pet and caress him and let him do the same to her. Sometimes, when he went out to do his act, he was physically shaking with repressed sexual feelings, and usually Nadine told him that those were his great nights. Cindy had it all worked out, too. She knew how long David could keep going before they had enough money to do just what they wanted for Jason, and the rest of the family they planned.

David's chorus line, that went out with him quite often, was much more subdued than he. Marty (or Cindy as he preferred to be called), Clinton (also known as Debbie), Farrell (now called Diane by every- one), Ace (or "Ellen" as "she" preferred now that she was on hormones and developing at an alarming rate) and Lisa, of course, all would go out with David who was the only one still to use his real name. But "the girls" felt themselves to be overly treated as "freaks." They were uncomfortable and afraid of letting go even in private parties, save with each other and their own "girl friends."

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