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Beauty =/= Symmetry
She felt beautiful.
To everyone she knew,
she was beautiful.
Like a princess
who loved her people
and loved being young.
As naive as she seemed
She was a good friend.
Smart, fair and beautiful.
Someone who understood corruption
Without welcoming it.
Things are different now,
She's still beautiful to all who see.
Still loving and smart.
Everything she was before.
Except...
She didn't feel beautiful.
She went to battle
with an inhumane disease.
The cutting, the tubes
the removals and IV's
left scars.
Scars mean imperfection
which shows that we're human.
But humans love symmetry
and what's prettier than that?
What's prettier than
a flawless, smooth stomach?
Or a face without tubes?
To her nothing was uglier than sickness.
Nothing was uglier than corruption.
Nothing...
Except her scars.
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This article is actually about me and a recent surgery. I thought I'd write about it from my friend's perspective. They told me how they saw me. So I wrote based on what they gave me as a description.