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What's the name of this short story?

this is what i remeber (i read it 10 years ago). the shorty depicts an extreme socialist view where beautiful people have to wear mask to be "equal" in apperance to no attractive people. this girl that's a good dancers has to were weights or something to make her "equal" to the not so good dances. it was in a high school lit book and I really want to find this story!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I don't know myself but I found this list of fairy tales that might have it in there on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_tales

  • BILL C
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    1 decade ago

    I believe the story is entitled "Harrison Bergeron" and is included in a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut entitled "welcome to the monkey House".

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