I just celebrated another birthday. Not much has changed in a year, and yet everything has changed in a year. I still struggle not to be completely awkward in unfamiliar social settings. Sometimes I say too much, and other times not enough. There are some life lessons I still have to learn over and over again. My brows are still …
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When You’re Not Loved Because You’re Not Beautiful
I was an ugly child. At least, if you’d asked me, I’d have told you that. I was reminded of it in a thousand little ways. The way my dad ignored me when I’d try to talk to him. The way he shook his head at everything I did. The way he never came to any of my performances. The …
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You are beautiful. There are few things more powerful than beauty. Lust is such a poor, thin response to it. Our culture allows lust to define beauty, but it can’t. Lust doesn’t tell us anything about the one seen. It only tells us about the one who looks, and how they look, and why. You are beautiful. Perhaps men have …
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