The Most Beautiful Girl in the WorldNot everybody gets to know the most beautiful girl in the world. But I met a man who had. From very close up. It was not possible to know the most beautiful girl in any other way.
One might say she was strange. But there’s no greater obstacle to understanding than the idea of the normal. Normality is a graphite-colored minimizer, a grinder that pulps life’s miracles into a nondescript dust.
What follows here is Derek Coleman’s story of his life with this rarity. Derek was looking back to about thirty years before, the time he shared a home with her, the most beautiful girl, when he told me his story.
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They had met at a fairground. She struck him from among the crowd, or rather being separate from the crowd. She was the only one riding the merr
