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pictures he didn't even have on a wig or cosmetics. There was no question as to who was in the pictures.

"They forced me to do it," he said as he turned a bright red.

"Then you don't deny that this is you in the pictures?"

"No, but they made me. They were blackmailing me.'

"

"I find that hard to believe Joe looking at these pictures. Do you still have some of these clothes?"

"Yes, they're in my room in a suitcase, but Ellen gave them to me. I picked them out myself and she said they were mine."

"You bought girls clothes for yourself in a ladies store?"

"Yes."

"How were you dressed?"

Joe sighed. "As a girl."

"Did you try on different dresses and things?"

"Yes."

"Go to your room, Joe, that's all for now. I will decide what your punishment will be.

"

Joe went slowly from the room. He felt like the world was collapsing around him. He thought to himse.f it wasn't his idea to do it but then he had to admit it was fun and he had been exposed to a whole new soft, frilly world.

Soon it was supper time and Joe's mother called him to eat. There was nothing but silence. "After supper we will discuss your punish- ment," he was finally informed. They went into the front room and his mother said, "I must admit that I was overwhelmed today to find out what you've been doing in recent months. I've never thought of you as effiminite and certainly never thought I could have gotten you into girls' clothes. However, you have proven me wrong and I guess I don't

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