Trust
such profound pronouncements on personal disfigurement, I wonder if once you were pretty, perhaps, prepubescent, a child angry at adults who adored the doll with all the bumps and scars on the inside. did friendly hands, friendly eyes, friendly voices chuck you beneath your chubby chin look into innocent eyes and lovingly only see a happy, beautiful baby? struggling to stifle the screams, the dreams, labored breath clinging to damp, dying lungs, I wonder, when you were young, with this limp, these twisted bones, did loving voices coax you along give you hope? --Holly Day