The "ugly duckling": tortured and shunned throughout his first months of life for his drab and gawky appearance, he eventually matures into a beautiful swan and happily soars away with a flock of graceful brothers.
Or...
The fantastical caterpillar: radiantly radical during his brief adolescence...
...he lives the life and sows a mountain of wild oats before eventually sobering up and becoming a homely little milkweed tussock moth...
I guess there are still some lingering traces of his early years as a rebel hiding underneath his now conservative wardrobe...those gosh darn tattoos are such a pain to remove!
Clever! I think it all depends on one's perspective. It's a great topic for a discussion sometime.
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