Being Pretty Is the Last Thing a Lot of Women Ought to Think About

Deborah Kristina
3 min readJun 5, 2024
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I wish that we weren’t startled by scar tissue and other deformities.

I feel very sad when people are hard on someone for wearing a large-sized shirt. Why be surprised when someone’s toes look a little different from what we expect?

I wonder about the story behind bumpy and/or discolored skin, faded burn marks, former scabs…

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Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)