Had he hoped she was unattractive so she might want to give someone like him a chance? To kiss him again, only the next time with nothing between them? And was he really so insensitive—so superficial—that he thought unattractive women had to settle for disfigured men like him anyway? Or that people loved each other based only on looks? Then again, why shouldn’t he? Hadn’t he chosen women solely on their physical characteristics once upon a time? Hadn’t he been proud to enter a party or a restaurant with some beautiful woman on his arm that he’d replace with a new one once things grew stale as
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