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My Mom was always unsatisfied with all the facial features God has gifted me. She has very stunning set of eyes and she always wanted me to inherit her features especially her eyes. Almost twice or thrice a day I use to hear "Raja, you really have little eyes, you would have looked better if you would have inherited my set of eyes". Hearing the same thing almost every day nullified everything other compliment. I started poking my friends with the question that if I really have very small eyes like that of rat. Unaware of the context of the question their answers were something from nice to beautiful. Years passed by and was still hearing the same thing until one day when everything changed. Since I was poor at Mathematics, my parents decided to send me to extra classes to the most scary and iron-fisted teacher Mrs. Pal. I was scared to death to attend her classes. On the first day which later on proved to be the most memorable day, was asked to sit beside her. She took my...