By Siobhan Taylor — 2020
No one has to be ashamed of any part of themselves; for each of us is much more than just our physical characteristics.
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When I said I was struggling, people would tell me I was beautiful. The world had drained out all the metrics of measuring beautiful and replaced it with scales and calorie counts.