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Flatulo

(5,005 posts)
14. One advantage to being born ugly is that I've never
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 02:17 PM
Jan 2015

felt 'visible', hence there is no sense of loss of desirability as I've aged. You can't miss something you never had.

Of course, since I'm a white male, I've obviously been handed everything in life on a silver platter. The fact that my dad was an alcoholic janitor who could barely feed us, and that I had to work for every cent to put myself through college, doesn't count for anything.

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