Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. …

Suzanne Collins
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Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way. ✨ Suzanne Collins (2010). Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3), p.59, Scholastic Inc.
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