Josh
“The looks were never the variable. The decision was.”
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He was not what you would call handsome.
That is not an insult. That is just the truth and Josh would be the first one to tell you.
Humongous nose with a scar running across it like a road through a mountain. Big lips. A patch of bumps on the back of his neck that never went away. Maybe 5'9 on a good day.
Women were not lining up to call Josh handsome. That never happened. That was never going to happen.
And Josh did not care even a little bit.
The first time I understood what I was watching was outside his older brother's house. We were sixteen, maybe seventeen. His brother was a firefighter and
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