They Called Me the “Ugly High School Graduate” in Front of Everyone — and My Family Expected Me to Smile and Accept It

jewel. Golden hair, effortless smile, the kind of beauty that made strangers turn in grocery stores and teachers give better grades and relatives offer compliments with the frequency and reliability of weather reports. She was two years younger than me and had been positioned, since birth, as the standard I was expected to meet and never would.

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