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This was a . . . beautiful response to this question, and it doesn't need my addition, but it made me think of a verse I love from "Asleep and Dreaming," a song by The Magnetic Fields.

Well you may not be beautiful

But it's not for me to judge

I don't know if you're beautiful

Because I love you too much

To me this is another and sort of sweetly backwards/upside down way of saying what you said, that of course your partner should find you beautiful. I am the wrong person to ask if my partner is beautiful on, say, some ghastly technical 1-10 scale because my eyes are confused with the beautiful whole of him.

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You are truly one of my favorite writers. Demonstrating beauty in the form of a response to a question about beauty.

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I wonder if anyone can ever change how they feel about themselves.

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Papi,

I agree that beautiful refers to much more than what is skin deep. To actually be beautiful, the form has to have substance.

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