Behind Your Beauty
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Last published Sun, Jun 25, 2017
Beauty is not in the face;
Beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Navigating the world can be hard when all you see is nothing.
Natalia Coleworth had her eyes removed at the age of five and she has learnt to be optimistic about what she has by making it seem like it's not hard at all. But it can be hard sometimes when you remember that you once didn't have to translate everything into something you could understand or hear people's obnoxious whispers about you.
So when she decides to try and organise a residential for orphans with somebody she just met, her crazy best friend and her antisocial twin brother, she ignores the fact that it may not be the brightest idea and focuses on the fact that together they are all making other people's lives better.
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