Ugly Duckling
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Beauty is what's on the inside, not what's on the outside. For such an overused phrase, people sure just skimmed past this topic without a second thought. I myself have witnessed how ugliness did not fit into this world at all. In a world full of pretty faces I was just a flaw. A defect amidst perfection. I am Katherine Black, someone whom people took a glance at and criticised how I looked, questioning why I stepped out of the house just to hurt their eyes. I am used to all of this, but I long to be a pretty face defined by the world's beauty standards.
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To Katherine Black, all she wanted was to simply exist just as everyone else was living. But due to circumstances, she became an ugly duckling at a young age and has lived through the trauma of it all. One day, she gets an offer to change her current disfigured face to one of grace and beauty that everyone would admire. But beauty comes at a price, would Katherine finally realise that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder or would she be swayed by the image the world perceives as beauty?
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