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It was if I deserved it".
When I unexpectedly got pregnant soon after, I wondered if I "deserved" to have a child – after all, parenthood was for the wealthy, not for losers like me.
I studied the tins of crackers and cookies that Grandpa kept on top of his bookcase and wondered if I deserved a treat because of what I would do for the family.
I asked my husband to be totally honest and tell me if I deserved to win Most Hated, and he said, "Sweetheart, why are you so down on yourself?" Of course, he said it in his sparkling English accent, which for a second I considered adopting, because it certainly irked people when Madonna did it.
Did a small part of you wonder if "I deserved it?" Does it matter what I was wearing, or how I was acting?
But the implication was there: I have a job; therefore I should feel a bit of "survivor guilt," even if I deserved my success just as much as any of my peers.
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I don't know if I deserve it".
"If I deserve it," Daniel says, "then the universe will serve it".
But certainly if I deserve to have an air-conditioner here in New York, my counterpart in Mumbai deserves to have one, too.
In the days before Time revealed its Person of the Year, Trump was telling crowds, "Even if I deserve it, they can't do it".
Their modern-day descendants have no doubt: "If I deserve it, then the universe will serve it," says Daniel Lugo, the ringleader of Mr. Bay's Sun Gym gang.
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