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[jack]

For ages, teenagers/young adults in Arbury have been yelling at me for being bald[1]. Today an old lady I said Good Morning to said she liked my hair. I don't know what she liked, if anything at all, but it was very sweet.

[1] Indeed, my notion of different levels of apology apply here to. If I, or someone, is unconventionally dressed, or badly dressed, or ugly, or fat, or bald, or has a regional or class accent, or is foreign, and someone is offended by this, you don't feel to have (1) deliberately offended them, but you may feel to have (2) inconsiderately or (3) inadvertently offended them -- the way you might if you had bad table manners, or a bad small, or similar. Whereas in fact, not even (4) a regret devoid of causation is appropriate, you can drop the response as far as (5) a sarcastic "I'm sorry you're so stupid..."

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That's about right. "to/too" is a typo -- sorry! "feel you have" would probably be a lot clearer, yes, but I think "feel to have" is a normal construction? And, indeed, I do blur between "you (one)" and "I"