Was there anything anyone could have said to make you see you were an attractive young man?

Was there anything anyone could have said to make you see you were an attractive young man?

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At this point in time, there was not anything that anyone could say, not my mom, not a relationship I was in, not a friend. I mean you could have Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tell me that I was good looking and be on a lie detector test and I still would not have cared. It was how I felt. How I thought I looked and when I looked in the mirror it wasn't that I thought these things. To me it was real. I could touch the craters on my face. I could touch the wrinkles and the acne. So there was nobody that could tell me I was normal and attractive because I know what I saw.