By Amy Rose | December 20, 2019
“A blast from the past! I’m humbled when I look at this girl. 17 year old me. Not just because of how I look on the outside, but because I remember how I felt on the inside. I remember how badly I hated myself and hated the dark skin that made people call me ugly,” she wrote.
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She also described how she turned her helplessness of not being able to change her outward appearance inward. She wrote, “unable to change my outward appearance inward, by constantly cleaving away any and all parts of myself that I was told made me unacceptable to others.”
