I will always identify with the wallflower, the one who isn’t pretty enough to be invited out on the dance floor. That is who I really am because of how I was as a young girl. I believed that my nose, which was long and bumpy, kept me from being considered pretty. I imagined that girls, then young women, and finally women, would say to each other, “Gee, Jeannette could be so attractive if only she didn’t have that nose.” And I began to wonder if I had to always think that way. It is amazing to me that I could simply pay to look better, that it is within our power, if we just make some money
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