Throughout my adult life -- after being shot down by a cute guy I was hitting on, after a job interview that seemed distinctly chilly from the beginning, after store clerks snickered with each other as I left a shop -- I've found myself thinking, If only I sounded straighter, the world would be my oyster. I'm intelligent, attractive, relatively young... Why, I bet I could be president if only I sounded 'straight'! Or, less ambitiously, I would be knee-deep in men wanting to have sex with me, if ...
Throughout my adult life -- after being shot down by a cute guy I was hitting on, after a job interview that seemed distinctly chilly from the beginning, after store clerks snickered with each other as I left a shop -- I've found myself thinking, If only I sounded straighter, the world would be my oyster. I'm intelligent, attractive, relatively young... Why, I bet I could be president if only I sounded 'straight'! Or, less ambitiously, I would be knee-deep in men wanting to have sex with me, if ...
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