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littlebirdie · 4350 days ago · link · · parent · post: What's the best (and/or most interesting) piece of advice you've ever heard?
When I was a young girl, I lived with my grandma. She worked in a cooperative factory skiving shoes. She was responsible for putting the little decorative holes in men's wing-tipped dress shoes. I wasn't a pretty girl, and I wasn't popular. One day, I came home from school and my grandma came home from work, and we were both feeling beat-up - she was exhausted from the long hours and hard work, and the rich girls had taunted me all day, called me ugly names. I cried and cried. My grandma made me cocoa and turned the radio up, loud. We danced polkas around the kitchen, and I started feeling better. I have never forgotten the advice she gave me that night: "Don't be beautiful, honey. Be smart."