Do Not Judge A Book By Its Cover

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The phrase “you can’t judge a book by its cover” is a phrase that is not just applied to books. The obvious first thought is that looking at a book a person will think that it’s too thick and will be boring, too thin and will not be as detailed or that the title implies something the reader is not interested. The same can be applied to music, trips and as I will detail here, people. I want to talk about a girl I know, too well now, that I will call “Fancy”. Fancy is a very pretty girl. She has the type of personality that she can walk in a room and not say anything and walk out with a pocket full of notes with e-mails and phone numbers on them. Everybody wants to know her. She seems very simple. She is always agreeable whether she likes an opinion or not, she will not say anything bad. I need to add that she is a foreign girl and she needs a family. Somewhere she had been told she could find a good family at church. I don’t know how she chose the church she ended up going to but she went. Every Sunday and special event at that church, she was there. With her personality it was as if she never met a stranger. She tried to get me to go to church but I’m just not into that and knowing what I know now, I am glad I’m not anymore involved. I don’t remember if it was her first visit to the church or her tenth visit but she left one Sunday morning and two hours later she was home. Smiling, laughing and just not the person she was normally. I knew she had met her victim, or I mean family. She goes to church, has regular meals with her American family and they help her when she needs it. Here is where I am uncomfortable. Recently I went with her to the DMV to get a driver’s license. She was told she needed glasses to drive. She went to her new “family” and told them of the situation. They took her for an eye exam and paid for some really expensive glasses. I had
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