People are always looking at my cannula, my scars, my G-tube, not at me.
This part ALWAYS makes me think of that pool scene. The power in that moment where they stand there, battle scars and all, completely open to one another. Beautiful exactly as they are. Beauty in what they’d both experienced, its stamp left on their bodies.
This particular moment comes right after Stella sees a young and happy couple coming into the hospital. It’s really her wanting people, wanting SOMEONE, to see
her and love her completely. To see more than just the cannula and the scars and the G-tube. To see who she is beyond that, but also who she is BECAUSE of that.
To go from this moment, to that scene in the bathroom where Stella looks at herself in the mirror, to the pool scene, we not only see Will becoming that person, but we also see STELLA becoming that person for herself. Accepting and loving and finding beauty in all of those parts of herself.
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