As a young child, she kept hearing aunts and uncles saying, she had so and so’s hair, and so and so’s smile and what’s her name’s eyes. It puzzled and frustrated her so much. It made her feel as if every part of her was second hand. Who want’s a body and personality that’s a hand-me-down? So one day she got so fed up, she blurted out to her mother,”What part of me looks like me?!”
each design unique
even with one small detail
phenomenal snowflake
(c) Tournesol ’19/09/05
Inspired: Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. OSCAR WILDE.
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