therealljidol week 29: the rent I pay

[j0ydivided]

I grew up knowing what I was. It was an inevitability--when someone gasps and says that they hope you grow up to be smart, when they tell you, faintly, that they think that you are very clever -- when you spend your entire childhood damned with faint praise, how can you not know?

My brother was gorgeous. I remember strangers, telling our parents:

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[messygorgeous]

I am so glad someone helped her love herself. My God, the world does a number on us, but I think she was her own worst enemy, not allowing herself to move beyond her physical appearance. It's too bad it took all those years of self loathing and an alien to help her move beyond the fact that she was so much more than her face!