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An Unwanted Resemblance

Just recently several people have commented on my resemblance to my grandfather. Since he has been dead for a considerable number of years, very few of those people ever met him in the flesh, and those who did are stricken in years with fading memories. The others who claim to see a likeness are basing their judgment on the photographs of my grandfather, or one or two famous contemporary portraits of him.

If you think my comments indicate that I am not very pleased by the suggestion that I resemble my grandfather in looks, then you have hit the nail on the head. Undoubtedly, he was a musical genius, but even his best friend could not say, with any truth, that he was physically attractive.

Of course, he was already quite old when I was born and, in fairness, I should allow for the depredations of age on his physical appearance. He was practically completely bald, but with two strands and every gray hair always carefully arranged over the shining top of his head, and with a most unattractive sparse, gray fringe straggling over the back of his collar.

He had fewer wrinkles than you might expect in a man of that age, but this simply made a more visible and unsightly network of red, broken veins that spread over his cheeks on either side of his purplish-colored, bulbous nose. From the state of his elderly countenance, you could be forgiven for assuming that he had been a dipsomaniac all his life, but I have no reason to believe that this was the case. Add to this the fact that he was excessively thin and stooped like a question mark, and you can appreciate that, at the time I knew him, my grandfather was no oil painting.

According to my late mother and her various siblings who are long dead, it would not be fair to blame my grandfather’s unattractive appearance on the ravages of time alone. He had never been, in any way, handsome to look at. It may seem strange, then, that he had married, and remained married all his life to, a woman of most extraordinary beauty-my grandmother.

My grandfather was fortunate in that nature had given him many other gifts to offset his lack of physical beauty. Apart from his musical talent, he had great wit and could charm the birds from the trees. I have inherited some of his musical talent, for which I am grateful. However, I would much rather not have inherited his looks.

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