remark that I knew the girls reasonably well. One should allow time to build up a friendly relationship before "telling all."

Several asked me to make love to them while I was dressed but most of them enjoyed most of all, the gentle and considerate ways that I had adopted. I had lost all my mach ways.

I had developed a deep appreciation for women and re- sented how most are treated in our society. I found that women get burned out on the hard-driving macho rush acts. When they encounter someone who is obviously different, they love the opportunity to let down their guard and relax, to be treated as a human being, to be allowed to be themselves and exchange thoughts and ideas without being rushed to a bed-

room.

This is how I met and mar- ried my second wife. We had long and deep conversations as friends and really got to know one another before we became lovers. I told her all about Nichol. She understood and accepted the idea but did not

want to be exposed to it nor did she want her eleven year old daughter to know about it.

We arrived at a compromise that I felt that I could live with. Shortly after we were married, I had to relocate to Dallas, with a new job. This upset my new bride for she is very close to her father and had been trying since her first marriage to get back to North Carolina and home.

Now I was uprooting her and her daughter for another move across the country. Things did not go well when we got to Texas, for the first thing she did was to try to get a nice sunburn and suffered and suffered an al- lergic reaction. This caused in- ternal swelling which cut off circulation and almost cost the loss of her legs. The doctors confined her to an air-condi- tioned apartment for the entire

summer.

After about three months, she started coming apart at the seams for she had always been the type that was on the go constantly and therefore, to be caged up, was driving her up

the wall. She begged me to send her back to the mountains and her family.

I set her free like a beauti- ful wild bird that can't be caged for it will only destroy itself.

She is now back in the mountains with her family and I am single again with only one woman with whom I spent

any length of time Nichol!! Nichol has become very active in Tri-Ess activities here in Dallas and Houston and hopes

meet many of her sisters someday. I have tried to main- tain contact contact with all of my friends from the east coast. I have a passion for high heeled shoes, fashion clothes and jew- elry. To close my story, it has taken me forty two years to realize that I have nothing to prove to anyone, not even my- self, so now I am very happy to see my second-self, Nichol, growing and developing into a beautiful person in her own right. "We've come a long way, baby."

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