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It might sound odd, because of how much of my time I spend thinking about it, but I don't dream of the trans stuff often.
But last night was an exception.
I dreamed that I somehow got possession of a necklace belonging to a goddess of beauty.
Someone suggested I give it back, but I said, “I need this. I need to be beautiful”
Then I woke up, feeling rather sad.
Ah, well.
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I just "flashed" on ...
... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes, "rogue smith ... stretching [people] or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed."
Not much 'beauty" after the victims die from the stretching or amputation ...
A trap too many (mostly teens and women) fall into. trying to fit someone else's notion of beauty. or perfection, or whatever ...
Just be =you=, and your beauty should shine out just fine.
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Me? Beautiful? Handsome? [1] {Snort! }
I'm 4' 11" (149 cm) on an honest day, and bear a resemblance to a short, skinny (by Santa standards) Santa, or a chubby garden gnome. Not withstanding, two women thought I looked OK enough to marry.
Getting stretched. There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropometric_cosmetology. My right leg didn't grow as fast as the left, and the docs ... adjusted it. Three times. I choose not to do the last 2-1/2" (5 cm), and I use a shoe lift instead.
Decades later, a doc who was seeing me for something else, recognized the scars from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilizarov_apparatus
Not something I recommend as an idle weekend pass-time ...
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[1] Although, there was one guy at International Mister Leather (you probably don't want to follow this link: https://www.imrl.com/) who thought I was handsome. We're supposed to say "thank you", and then shut up. Given the venue - my reply was "I'm straight." He said "Doesn't matter."