I once had a teacher who said the Dick Tracy comic was “insidious” because all the villains were disfigured. You know, Flat Top and Prune Face and all them. She said it was wrong to think people who look different are bad. She talked about movies that played on our fears of things that are different and made them worse. She was careful not to look at me and no one else in the class did either, but I felt like they were all thinking about me. I would have if I were them. I felt like Miss Mahoney was trying to tell me and everybody that I was okay. It just made me embarrassed. I felt my cheeks flush but of course no one …
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