Skin Deep - On Hold

My name is Ilba Enji. I exist on a planet called Ocraine. Our planet is very much like yours. We have cliques, and high school, and clichés. We have female drama and cross-gender relationship problems. We know there's other life off world, but we just can't quite reach it. Our atmosphere is too thick to launch probes or heavens-craft. One of your most famous clichés is "beauty is only skin deep". I'm dying of a skin disease, so I'm not beautiful. My skin is marred and repulsive, and the way people look at me--it's more than only skin deep.