So it has been six weeks since the dermatologist. Six weeks, remember? She said I wouldn’t even START to see a positive change in my skin until at LEAST six weeks.
Which is why I was so excited that my face had been responding to treatment since day ONE! Yay! And for the past five weeks, it has been getting better and better!
Until JUST NOW. Week Six, that fabled week I should “start to see improvement,” all that improvement has gone right away. It is like I have been living in a dream these past five weeks of clear skin, a dream where shopkeepers don’t avoid making eye contact out of pity, a dream without babies bursting into tears at the sight of me. It has been a wonderful five weeks, and now, I am crashed back down to reality. I mean, what if that was it? Those five weeks were the best weeks of my life, and now they’re over??? WHAT IF I’m just like “The Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling”??? Hey, don’t tell me you’ve never heard the story of “The Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling”?
Once upon a time there was a duckling who hated her beak. She hated her beak so much that she would never leave the house. She complained about her beak and cried about her beak and sighed into the mirror about her beak until her friends got sick of it. It wasn’t even that bad of a beak, to be honest. It was a pretty normal beak, all things considered. But you know what, everybody’s got their “thing,” and the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling hated her beak. She couldn’t even remember a birthday when she didn’t blow out the candles and wish for a new beak.
“If you hate your beak so much, why don’t you go to the Magical Wishing Pond?” they suggested, when really they just wanted the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling to shut up about her beak so they could eat their bread-crumb brunch in peace (for a change).
“I think I will!” said the Fuckin’ Ugly Duck. So she called her insurance provider and got a referral for the dermato Magical Wishing Pond.
“Oh Magical Wishing Pond!” she wished. “I hate my beak so much! Please fix my awful ugly beak or I’ll die, I’ll just die!”
The Magical Wishing Pond hemmed and hawed. “Well,” it said, “I think I can grant your wish. BUT, I can’t guarantee the result.”
The Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling was desperate and didn’t listen. “Yes! Please! I’ll try anything!”
And so the Magical Wishing Pond granted the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling’s wish.
The next morning, the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling looked in the mirror and saw…just a normal beak! “Well, this is okay,” she said, stroking it gently with her wings. “I mean, I’m no swan, but at least I don’t want to kill myself anymore.”
And the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling went down to the pond to say hello to her friends. For once, the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling smiled and, with her new beak, she felt amazing. She even went swimming in the pond with her friends and didn’t worry about her concealer washing off her beak. She took all kinds of selfies – with duckface, of course. She was so happy.
The Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling lived happily ever after, finally knowing what it was like to wake up in the morning and face the day without suffocating under the lead blanket of self-hatred.
UNTIL ONE DAY, the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling woke up and looked in the mirror to find HER ENTIRE HEAD COVERED IN BEAKS. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. Just fucking BEAKS EVERYWHERE. Her head looked like a plate of steamed mussels. How do you cover up a head full of beaks? I mean, a hat isn’t going to help. Cutting a fringe will only go so far. This was a HEAD FULL OF BEAKS, people. I mean, can you even picture that? A BEAKY FREAK OF NATURE BEAK-FILLED BEAKFACE. The Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling CRIED and CRIED and tears came out of all of her beaks and it was a wet, freaky, beaky mess. FUCKIN BEAKS DUDE!!!
She ran down to the Magical Wishing Pond.
“What the fuck, Magical Wishing Pond?!?” she sputterd out of one of her beaks, while tears spewed out of the other beaks. SO MANY BEAKS. I mean, picture a duck with just TWO beaks, and it’s enough to make me wanna vom.
The Magical Wishing Pond shrugged. Yeah, the pond SHRUGGED, it’s a fuckin’ fairy tale, you got a duck with a head full of beaks, and the pond can shrug! Who’s telling this story, asshole?
The Magical Wishing Pond shrugged. “Well,” said the Magical Wishing Pond. “I never guaranteed the result.”
“What am I going to do?” sobbed the REALLY Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling. “I can’t go on like this! I look like the Predator, but like, if Predator was made out of beaks!”
“Aw, cheer up!” said the Magical Wishing Pond. “It’s not so bad!”
“Not so bad?” the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling leaned in close.
“NOT SO BAD?!” the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling leaned in even closer.
And then, the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling thrust her beaky-freak head into the Magical Wishing Pond and held ALLLL of her beaks under water until she stopped breathing and drowned. And the Fuckin’ Ugly Duckling died. And her freaky, beaky corpse was so fuckin’ ugly, it scared all the other animals away and nobody visited the Magical Wishing Pond ever again. And then Tishman Speyer bought the Magical Wishing Pond and they filled it with concrete and built luxury condominiums on top of it for yuppies to live in.
Because seriously, fuck that pond.
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