Oh my God, my mother exclaimed, she’s so ugly.<\/p>\n
Yes, I was the most unpleasant to look at,<\/p>\n
with big pouting lips, oval face and dirty blonde hair, with big short legs and arms.. Not a cutie chunky monkey.<\/p>\n
The children at the park avoided me and gave me a hard look,<\/p>\n
My brain could read their long gazed,”poor ugly baby” from another planet.<\/p>\n
One day, I came across a book in the library, entitled “ugly duckling”<\/p>\n
My heart started pumping real hard, while I slowly open the page to see who could that be..<\/p>\n
Thinking, they must have created an ugly story about me.<\/p>\n
To my surprised, I felt relief, to see an ugly duck and the miserable life,she went through.<\/p>\n
As a teenager, some changes going on in my puberty and that made me even scary.<\/p>\n
A girl with a good heart came close and told me: she likes my red pouting lips and my cheekbones, are well proportion for an oval face.<\/p>\n
Then, I began to like my self.<\/p>\n
The girl sincere word of admiration, helped me build my confidence.<\/p>\n
Looking at the mirror, was the image of an ugly duckling, transformed into a beautiful swan lake.<\/p>\n
My black coal skin turned smoky bronze, that compliment my dirty blonde hair.<\/p>\n
The black coal beauty, passed through a lot of turbulence in life, from<\/p>\n
A dark hard molten lava rock that went \u00a0through a lot of pressure,<\/p>\n
And turned into a gorgeous and brilliant diamond.<\/p>\n
This parable tells us that beauty is more than a skin deep.<\/p>\n
A beauty from the inside tells all.<\/p>\n
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