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I've Always Wanted To Be Taller. I Feel Like A Shrimp, But That's The Way It Goes. I'm Five-foot Four-and-a-half-inches - That's Actually Average. Everything About Me Is Average. Everything's Normal, In The Books. It's The Things Inside Me That Make Me Not Average.

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I've Always Wanted To Be Taller. I Feel Like A Shrimp, But That's The Way It Goes. I'm Five-foot Four-and-a-half-inches - That's Actually Average. Everything About Me Is Average. Everything's Normal, In The Books. It's The Things Inside Me That Make Me Not Average.

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