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amber into heels, more flattering and softer materials for clothes, some harlequin gold rimmed glasses and costume jewelry and did the whole My Fair Lady-trip on her. She became a really beautiful woman and then I could begin to fall in love with her which I did.

One amusing incident comes to my mind. She had been telling me that I would look more of a lady if I wore a couple of chignons (coils of hair worn at the nape of the neck and which were fashionable about that time). I in turn had maintained that she ought to get her hair cut, styled and a permanent rather than the severe, pulled back style she wore from English days. At that time I lived in a rebuilt old house in which I had an upstairs back apartment reached by a long outside stairway and a short entrance hall. It was so far toward the back of the house that I could look up the backyards of all the rest of the block. Conversely when my door was open they could look right into my apartment.

On this particular night I called "D" and asked her to come over saying that I would come pick her up after work. She said no, that she had something to do and that she would come over by herself when she was through and named an appropriate time. So I went home after work, had a bite of dinner and then started to get dressed. I was all finished except for my wig which was going to be a surprise for her because I had bought the two chignons and had them fastened into the wig. I heard her coming up the stairs and hurriedly put on the wig, went to the door at the head of the stairs and turned out the hall light since with the door open anyone could look into the hall and see me. This meant that she entered the hall in the dark and we couldn't see much of each other. She came in, I closed the door and we went into the lighted living room. There we both got a surprise because I had pleased her by getting the chignons and she had pleased me by getting her hair cut and had had a permanent. She was truly a different looking girl, and that mutual act of trying to please each other was the beginning of our real love for each other.

Eventually we decided to live together because having been once burned I was, in effect, twice shy of marriage. So we got an apartment with five cats and three hamsters. All of them had the run of house and they used to eat together off of the same plates at the same time. And whenever any difference of opinion arose it was the hamster who won out. Cats and mice (rodents in general can be good friends) so we had quite a "family." "D" and I took a trip to San Fran-

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