I don’t want to be too hard on Hans Christian Andersen because he isn’t around to defend himself, but I have a difficult time believing that Hans Christian Andersen was doing the best he could and trying his hardest when he wrote The Ugly Duckling. The guy was a maniac. Do you know how many stories he wrote? 3,381 stories. Do you really think he thought about any of them for more than four seconds? I’m not accusing Hans Christian Andersen of anything, but, as an ugly child, I found The Ugly Duckling to be an insufficient answer to my questions. And I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he wrote
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