Sybil's "31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN!"... Jean and "Alice".....

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True Story!.... Jean Stapleton was Alice Cooper's girlfriend back at Miss Porter's Academy For Marginalized Girls of Unexceptional Social Standing.... they were both due to graduate when, at the Halloween Cotillion, Alice revealed that she was determined to have a sex-change, or gender-reassignment as we call it now. Of course, back then, these procedures were done in the backrooms of disreputable or unlicensed podiatrists...sometimes in gas station bathrooms in the middle of the night. There was no pre-op counseling, supportive nursing staff, or even sterile-procedure.... sometimes it was just "snip-snip" with some pinking shears from grandma's sewing kit and a shoelace or two.... This photo, the very photo you're looking at is the moment when "Alice", formerly ALEX, had just broken the news. Jean was heartbroken! She begged Alex to reconsider! Didn't they have a great time together? Hadn't they been happy as sweethearts? Didn't their parents and families adore each other? Weren't they planning a June wedding in a year or two...and children??? Yes! Children!!.... But Alex was adamant! "I can't bear living one more Fall fashion season as a MAN!" Alex cried, clutching the latest issue of Vogue! "I'm a woman! I'M A WOMAN! A WOMAN, I TELL YOU!!!"... Jean ran from the ballroom/cafeteria past the angel's hair spider webs and the glittered cardboard moons and stars as they spun slowly in the air. Her dreams were dashed!...and Alex? Well, he dropped out of school, spent all of his salary from the muffler repair shop on a ratty old top hat, junky brands of mascara, and laundry markers, and hitchhiked to Akron to begin his new life as "Alice". They both ended up stars in that rough and tumble carny-world known as "show-biz" ....but they never spoke again.... 

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