Unfortunately, this is what they judge you on because it is what they can see. This one small aspect of who you are is magnified out of proportion, and sometimes other people just can't get past it. It's nothing to you and everything to them.
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A boy and his dog can go walking
A boy and his dog sometimes talk to each other
A boy and a dog can be happy sitting down in the woods on a log
But a dog knows his boy can go wrong