I'm a slender beautiful brown-skinned girl of 18 with very long dark hair and even though I don't wear fancy clothes nor shoes, I was very appealing to the eye.

I was the carbon copy of my mother. While growing up, my mother instilled self-love and confidence in me and always told me I was very beautiful and so, even when I was bullied and told otherwise of myself, I trusted in my mother's words and my mirror and carried myself with pride; refusing to let anyone else's words bring me ...