Feel Pretty Again
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Last published Fri, Jan 6, 2023
"...I'll do anything to make myself feel pretty again cause you scarred me and made me forget I was pretty within..."
Twenty year old, Jaliyah finds herself in the arms of a man who says he's in love with her but the bruises that he leaves on her body, don't prove it.
Will she leave him for good or will she stay with him?
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