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“Even when I was beautiful, I’d gotten hurt. I think I just wanted to be miserable in a way that made me feel beautiful.” BeautyAgingAgeismLookismSelf Hated Book:Softie: Stories Source: Softie: Stories
“Before I was born, I tried to kill myself. My dad told me how, according to the social worker who’d taken me, I’d wrapped myself up in my birth mom’s umbilical cord as a baby so that I almost choked to death.” GriefHealingTraumaAbuse Survivors Book:Softie: Stories Source: Softie: Stories
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