For All the Ugly Women
Her Name was Dorothy, and she was ugly. I thought her beautiful.
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5 min readMar 7, 2021
The year was 1972. She was living in the same boarding house that I was. She was also working at the same hotel — Sol Kerzner’s newly built Southern Sun Hotel, The Elizabeth, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
She used to fascinate me. Her face was badly pock-marked, that of someone worn down…
