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Ugly Men

Mike Berger, Ph.D.

We have no idea where we went wrong.
Our only daughter is a whore. She’s
smart and articulate; even a bit glib.
She isn’t the belle of the ball but she is
quite pretty. For reasons that we cannot
fathom, she’s attracted to ugly men.

In high school she was asked out by a
dozen good kids. Instead she chose a
pot smoking hophead. We try not to
pressure her; we figured she would come
to her senses. When they threw that kid
in jail for distribution, she moved on to
one of his druggy friends.

They saw each other for six months; then
he just disappeared. They found his body
several months later. They surmise he was
killed in a drug deal gone bad.

After she graduated from school, she left
home and went to live on the street. She
never calls or stops by. We lived in terror,
always expecting that call in the middle of
the night.

They arrested her for prostitution, and the
judge sentenced her to rehab at our request.
We hope against hope that rehab will work.
We often talk late into the night trying to
puzzle it out. Was it more than drugs that
drove her into the arms of ugly men?

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