Reminds me of the short story "The Adopted Son" by Guy de Maupassant. > Then the boy said, roughly: "I'd rather not have been born than be what I am. When I sa

Reminds me of the short story "The Adopted Son" by Guy de Maupassant. > Then the boy said, roughly: "I'd rather not have been born than be what I am. When I saw the other, my heart stood still. I said to myself: 'See what I should have been now!'" He got up: "See here, I feel that I would do better not to stay here, because I would throw it up to you from morning till night, and I would make your life miserable. I'll never forgive you for that!"