Janet FitchA person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
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The hunger for beauty and glamour is an important part of human nature. We all want to be beautiful and we all want to be loved. And the way we can get one and the other is by loving someone else. If that were the only way to get it, we would take it without a second thought.
Source: White Oleander
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