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...convinced that being "tall" is a unique experience--one that differs greatly from all other physiques...
...usually don't even have to get up. My dorm room features my belongings built upwards towards the heavens, creating 50 percent more space. Look around your room--there's lots of wasted empty space above the 4'5" mark. I use that space, so because I'm tall, I get more space, and therefore more stuff. This may seem unfair, except that smaller beings don't realize that when you're larger than average, your stuff is also larger than average. For example, my wardrobe takes up double the space of my 5'0" roommate's wardrobe...
...receive an unusually tall dose of annoying questions from strangers, the most common of which is, "Do you play basketball?" (No.) Affirmative statements are also popular, such as "You're really tall," and, "You're taller than my father." Yes, I am taller than your father. In fact, I'm taller than most people's fathers--94.1 percent of all men to be exact. This creates difficulties in the dating department, where tall men like to date unnecessarily short women and short men seem to be all the rage this decade. After subtracting for irreconcilable personality differences and bad hairdos...
...were to gain weight, the experience wouldn't be pleasant. Not only would weight gain cancel out all likelihood of ever fitting a mainstream wardrobe, but tall people don't actually get fat. Instead, they get big. There's a difference--tall women can never become round and curvy like shorter people do. Instead, they grow increasingly oversized. This is why the phrase "She's a tall girl" is much preferable to "She's a big girl." Please remember that...
...little to distinguish him from other young Yugoslav intelligence officers drafted into the early days of Serbia's war effort. Slobodan Milosevic was whipping up Serbian nationalism, and the rest of the world was only dimly aware of the simmering ethnic mix that was about to explode in Yugoslavia. Tall, with fair hair, fluent in English and several other languages, "Frenki" was noted for his calm, professorial manner--and a fondness for Raybans. His main accomplishment was having successfully spied on U.S. diplomats at their Belgrade embassy during the cold...