The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: went to a party, the reaction was always the same.
"What's wrong with him?" some girl would ask.
"He's gotta look that way until someone marries him," would come
the reply.
"Hasn't that plot already been done?" the girl would say, walking
off in another direction.
But, hey, this is a fairy tale and I'm in a good mood so let's say
that finally, after many rejections, the young man found a nice girl
who actually loved him as he was.
As the young man got to know her, he kept trying to imagine what she
looked like. After awhile, he constructed a picture of her in his
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