Milo

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Milo, 21. Documenting a real limb lengthening journey — 166cm to 174cm, start to finish.

-- days out.

Personal documentation, not medical or financial advice. I'm preoperative, I'm not a doctor, and I'm not a licensed financial advisor.

Six years of something that never really went away.

I've been insecure about my height since I was around 15. Nothing set it off, it just built up slowly over the years.

There's nothing wrong with being 166cm — millions of men are that height and completely fine with it. This isn't an argument that anyone else should feel the way I do, it's just how I feel about my own body.

I tried a lot to make it go away first. Therapy helped with plenty, just not this.

I'm not doing this because I hate myself. I'm doing it because after six years, I've accepted this isn't going away on its own.

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