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VPR's coverage of arts and culture in the region.

Young Writers Project: Beautiful

Courtesy, Susan Reid
Elizabeth Magnan, 16, of Fairfield attends Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans and recently performed her poem at a Young Writers Project writing conference at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier.

All day I sucked in,

?trying to hide

?any traces of fat

?on my body,

but tonight,

?looking in the mirror,

I feel beautiful.

I used to hate my hair,

?the frizziness,

the plain brownish-

blondish mess,

but tonight

I see the curl,

?the golden glint,

the beauty.

I always wanted

to hide my face,

the roundness,

?the acne, the rough,

unsculpted eyebrows,

but tonight

I see my bright

green eyes

?and gentle curve

?of my lips,

?forming a smile and

?crinkling up my eyes;

?I have found my beauty.

?I have decided

to love me

and my features,

all of them,

because only I

?can decide if

I am beautiful or not;

?only I have this power,

?and I have decided

?I am BEAUTIFUL.

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