Looking for a Story - Can you help?

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I wonder if anyone can help?

A few years ago someone was asking about a story and one of the replies had a link to a story which I read, and liked. Now I'm trying to find that story among my huge archive of downloaded material. I can't recall the author but I have a vague recollection that the title may have been something like 'What I did on my Summer Vacation'.

The story was about a young man, still in school, who travelled alone by Greyhound Bus to visit some relatives in another state. During the journey he is mistaken for a girl and there is an attempted sexual assault by an ex-con. Once at his destination, and after discovering that his suitcase has been misplaced, his female cousins trick him into cross-dressing and as a result he later is persuaded to audition at a local TV station for a vacant Weather Girl slot for the length of his vacation. From there he/she is eventually promoted to co-anchor of the evening news programme. Eventually, after a brief return to his home state he and his mother decide to move so that he/she can take the co-anchor position permently. I'm not sure but I think he takes the name 'Ashley James' for his female personna.

Does this ring any bells? I'd really like to read the story again and it's bugging me that I can't find it among my huge archive. I really must work out a better filing system for my archive.

Thanks in advance.

John.

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