See above.

Always best to seek out the facts: "After two seasons as Julie Emrick, Johnson asked Abrams if she could leave following the passing of her mother. In 2012, Johnson said that "in hindsight, I wouldn't have asked to go. I mean, I don't regret anything, but at the same time if I did it again I wouldn't have asked to…

It's an assumption that good looking people would never have had to suffer as much as Ben's character did in real life. "Good looking" people do tend to have advantages, however many of them are hated immediately because of it, which is a form of prejudice. Never judge a book by it's cover.
As for choosing between…

The "married" men chose to sleep with her.

Agreed.

I disagree. After reviewing shots of her in the doorway in the beginning of the episode, she is a spitting image of Joshua Jackson during his adolescent years.

"If in Cole’s memory Alison was in a plain dress; she recalls herself in something pretty and floral." http://www.thedailybeast.co…
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