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For a long time, my teeth didn’t line up quite right.

My left canine was a little higher than the rest and I’d spend hours in front of the mirror, staring at it. “There’s nothing wrong with your teeth,” my mother would say. “They look beautiful.” Of course she would say that. She’s my mother.

I eventually saved up enough money to get my teeth fixed and then I shelled out $350.00 to have them whitened but it didn’t stop there. It never stops. There is always something that needs to be fixed.

Teeth. Hair. Skin. Nails.

Intellect?

Yes, that too. But intellect always comes as an afterthought.

I spent my morning reading about the Gaza Strip but then I walked past a mirror and noticed my split ends and I made an appointment with my hairdresser. Seems like every time I have some extra cash I’m running somewhere, or to someone, asking to be fixed. And when I am fixed I am happy. Until I see a girl who is prettier than me.

The extra time and money never goes to worthwhile things. I only use it to fix things. The money never goes towards things that could make life better for me and for others.

I’d like to become move evolved. Perhaps one day I will.

Not today, though.

Madam Justice Katherine van Rensburg has ruled that Pasqualino Cornelio must continue to financially support the twin girls he raised, even though he did not biologically father them.  According to her article in the Toronto Star, Precious Yutanco claims that when the Cornelios applied for joint custody in 2002, the “agreement failed to disclose that [ex-wife] Anciolina had an affair while they were married, [prompting Pasqualino to] call … an act of fraud “.  She writes that the judge ruled in Ancolina’s favour because, due to the medication she was taking at the time, she is unable to recall the extra-marital affair and “has no idea who the twins’ father is”.

And here you have yet another example of how family law screws men over.

Well … not exactly.

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