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The price of being a man!

 I am going to tell you 2 stories today, and I hope to make my point in the process. The first story is of the days when I could openly disclose my age to anybody – when I was in my teens I mean..! It was a fine summer night, when I faced the truth for the very first time.. There on the wall, was the test to my bravery, a test to my being a man.. My father was out of town and I was the only one to face this ultimate challenge..! Now whenever I think about it, even with my 48 inches of frame at that time, I myself must have been a challenge to my challenge on the wall. But it didn’t feel that way in my mind. ..because, what I was staring at, was a no-nonsense live 5-inch-wall lizard crawling on the wall in front of me.. The women folks (- my mother and sister) were expecting me to get rid of it.. “Do whatever the hell you gotta do, just get it out of our sights permanently!”).. Man vs animal.. I sensed that rush of adrenaline and somehow remembered the Gunfight at the O.K.Corral, Du...