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The Paragon of Ugliness [for the New York Saturday Press]

"The Paragon of Ugliness [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press. 12 May 1860: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
short fiction
Abstract: 

The narrator explains his attraction to genuinely "ugly" women. Then gives a story of how he came about the ugliest and therefore most transcendent woman he ever saw. Unfortunately, she was not interested in him, and left the city.