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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, I have been attractive most of my life.  Not bragging, but when you are, you do know it.  I am also intelligent.

I purposefully down played my looks at work.  When young, I wore very tailored clothes, my hair back and often put on my glasses.    I wanted to be taken seriously and it paid off.

I never flirted with men at work, but I was friendly, and got along with the guys well.  I also am a good worker and friend, and had many lovely female friends in the office.  I would say, with some, I had to prove my smarts a bit more (with the smart, not so attractive women), but I earned it eventually.

Anyway, I never blamed any thing on my looks, never wanted the attention so always down-played.   I feel sad when I see women trying so hard to get noticed, but I realize I sit from a vantage point of being pretty without  a lot of effort.

My daughter is really beautiful and I am working hard to instill the right values in her, as well.   This is not about vanity, she was just born that way and gets a lot of attention for her looks which she is aware of and which we struggle with how to manage at her age (7).   I am sure she will have her ugly duckling time (I did!) as a pre-teen,  and it was the best thing that happened to me, in some ways.  [/quote]

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