If It’s Only Skin Deep… Why Should I Want To Be Beautiful?
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5 min readAug 30, 2022
This piece was published many years ago (in a simpler time), on a defunct online magazine called Intrepid Media, and I use it as a writing sample for job apps occasionally. But upon reading this piece by Helen VanPatterson-Patton, I decided to put it back out into the world.