You say you are not pleasant to look at. Have you considered that maybe that's just because you're not your type?
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Every man dies two deaths. The first, when his body dies. The second when the last person who remembers him dies. Stories, too, die when the last person who knows the story dies. So the trick is not only to know the story, but to make people remember the story, so it will live on.