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She wanted to touch the chubby legs of her sister’s baby, but by the time her fingertips touched the child, he had turned to hot blacktop.<\/p>\n

The toe beans of her best friend’s corgi puppy? Turned to a handful of pebbles you’d find on the rocky beaches of Croatia.<\/p>\n

Her first love, a marble statue now, that several boyfriends later made her get rid of because he was insecure about his latissimus dorsi muscles. She sold it to a gay architect.<\/p>\n

She had never used her power for bad, unlike popular theory.<\/p>\n

All accidents.<\/p>\n

She wasn’t the vengeful type.<\/p>\n

Finally, she took out her eyes with a ice cream scooper and as she rolled them around in her hands to take a look at herself, she found the smooth, caramel skin, the dark hair, the red lips were a gray, rough concrete.<\/p>\n

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  1. Why had anyone ever thought she was a beauty?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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