A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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John Mendelssohn
Aug 12, 2010
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It hasn’t always been easy being spectacularly good-looking and charismatic. Even when I was in elementary school, even in those years when the two sexes viewed each other with befuddlement or even contempt, I think my male classmates knew instinctively that I would one day get effortlessly something for which they would have to fight and connive and de…

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