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Body Hair, Scars, Birthmarks, Tattoos…

Deborah Kristina
2 min readOct 17, 2022

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Unsplash — Alexander Grey

I think human beings are there for me to admire.

I particularly like to feel their vulnerability

throughout every less than a millimeter in my mind.

I am all for observing exposed skin.

I like noticing how much body hair people have.

I like wondering about scars, scrapes, bruises,

tattoos and birthmarks and moles and warts

and acne and other flaws on the skin.

I am curious as to how another’s flesh feels,

how other legs, torsos and lower bellies are shaped,

how other bodies are curved and defined.

Looking at uniformed covered people

bores me. Why shouldn’t I observe how flawed

the human body is? Why shouldn’t I notice

how differently shaped every body is?

There is a lot to discover when we observe

someone’s body. I don’t like not seeing

people’s bodies because I don’t feel

like I understand them as much.

I feel restless and limited when people

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Deborah Kristina
Deborah Kristina

Written by 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)

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