tallest woman

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How much of the effort anyone expends is aimed at the simple prayer, "Lookit me! Lookit me!"?

Yao Defen with older brother

And yet in China, the world's tallest woman, Yao Defen, has reportedly died at 39 and it is hard not to feel some sorrow for the woman who was quoted three years ago as saying:

I am very unhappy. Why am I this tall? ... If I were not this tall, others would not look at me like this.

At seven-feet-seven-inches (233.3 centimeters), Yao might have given much to have her own prayer answered: "Don't lookit me! Don't lookit me!"

Kim Kardashian and Yao Defen ... everyone has their prayers.

Maybe it would be less painful to revise the "lookit!" to "look-ing."
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