It is a strange thing to love another. I had not had much experience. It was Penny, of course, who I fell for. I suppose everyone fell in love with her a little. She is beautiful. Maybe the most beautiful person any of us had ever seen. Even movie stars are not as beautiful as she. They do not put women such as her in films. It is not realistic. Aphrodite could not star in a romantic comedy. Aphrodite has drama in her dealings with gods but not with men.

She looks better, even, than those in fashion magazines. My friend Liam, who is gay, has a theory about it. He claims male models are indeed the epitome of masculine beauty, as you would expect, and he follows their lives on Instagram with great interest - I often mourn for him the sad fact that the traits he most [...]

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