@barrister-batman - You have shared with us such a powerful and courageous post, an unguarded, unprotected view of the outer shell and the inner man. You have invited us, as a community of strangers, to receive and hold very sacred information, and to respond to you according to a resonant chord that harmonizes within each soul. What you call your choco-vanilla face (my favorite flavors) goes by a different name, a different description, and has a different source of shame in another person's life. So the name of the thing , whatever it is, has no meaning and does not matter. Call it the changeling that cannot disguise its true identity. Fear. We all know it. We've all wrestled in that arena. Some of us are wrestling now. And the fact that you have boldly given fear its place in the spotlight and dared it to sing its taunting song closes the show and brings down the curtains. Then we, the audience, rise up to acknowledge and embrace you. In trusting us, you declare that you believe we are worthy of this honor and can be trusted. Your faith in us elevates us. Therefore we thank you.