Prayers for Bobby
Author:Leroy Aarons
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-fiction, Gay, Biography, Religion
ISBN: 9780061951954
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1995-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
I’m becoming incredibly vain. I love it when people compliment me, and it happens a lot. I love love love it. Is that wrong? I deserve it. I work hard to be pretty for everyone. I like being an ornament. See, the thing is that I’m ugly sometimes, so when I’m pretty I take complete advantage.
He agonized over his physical appearance. He thought his hairline was receding, he detected the beginnings of wrinkles around his eyes, and, most irritating, he detested the barnaclelike acne that dug noticeable ridges into his face. Bobby tried to adhere to a health-food diet and devoted hours each week to a bathroom ritual of applying creams, lotions, and antibiotics. (His preoccupation with facial makeover prompted his lesbian friends at CalFrame to begin calling him Cher.) Nothing seemed to work. Like gayness, zits seemed to cling to him with perverse tenacity.
Finally, in November, he opted for a medieval-sounding medical procedure called “dermabrasion,” which promised to sand away unwanted blemishes.
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