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You are allowed to take up space, to feel, to think, to grow. You are allowed to evolve, to heal, to repair. You are allowed to start (and start over).

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Beauty begins anywhere and stops at nothing. 

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I hope you choose to leave beauty behind. 

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If South Korea did not put such an intense pressure on looking a certain way, then women would feel like they could walk out the door without any makeup, without feelings of unworthiness, and without pressures to get plastic surgery.

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You are worthy simply because you are alive.

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Do you secretly love books that make you cry? Do you visit art galleries and buy tickets to indie flicks on your own? Would you drive 4 hours in a day to go hiking at a nature reserve because you saw a painting of it that you fell in love with?

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At one point, I had accepted that this was my identity forever. A girl incapable of love. A girl undeserving of love.

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Embrace what you got, honey, but work towards a better life for yourself. 

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Beauty is passion and working on something you care deeply about.

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I hope you recognize everything you are on the inside.