part 1: (child) When I was a child, my favorite flowers were tulipa tardas, these tiny pale yellow star-shaped blossoms. In the spring, they are the first to bloom and the first to die,Continue reading
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This I Believe: Balancing Beauty and Intelligence
I have never been a beautiful girl. I am pretty, perhaps, but nothing more. For a long time, I didn’t notice, because my lack of physical beauty made me no less striking to the peopleContinue reading
Girl of Glass
They say a child can swim in the veins of a blue whale, that the vessels are just big enough for the slender body of a little girl. I would have fit perfectly, thin andContinue reading
This Loving
I love you. We’ve all heard these words before. We’ve said them before. We’ve given them out like they were candies wrapped in little blue boxes with silver strings, we’ve imagined them into ourContinue reading
Fairest of Them All
ROSEMARY: A young girl, daughter to MARIANNE, who initially represents the brightness and innocence of childhood. Yet as she grows older and more beautiful, she becomes the object of her mother’s jealousy. Thus, her relationshipContinue reading
Angels’ Wings
I have learned: it is impossible to be both beautiful and strong. She is made of glass, you made her out of glass. But she never wanted to be made up of angles andContinue reading