My entire high school existence was defined by a single, sprawling birthmark across my face and the relentless cruelty that followed it. I lived in the shadows of thrift-store clothes and a single mother’s struggle, a target for every designer-clad bully in the hallway. When Caleb, the school’s golden-boy football star, asked me to prom, I assumed it was a cruel prank. But as we danced, the whispers grew into a deafening roar of mockery until the police arrived to shatter the night… Continue reading…
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