When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living w…

Lucy Grealy
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like. ✨ Lucy Grealy (1994). Autobiography of a Face, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like. ✨ Lucy Grealy (1994). Autobiography of a Face, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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