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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SLU chapter.

They told her she didn’t meet their expectations

Her hair was too dark

Her skin too flawed

This isn’t the life we planned for you

But her strength and her courage made her stand out

Her beauty couldn’t be defined by numbers on a scale

And all their remarks turned to silence

As she became more than they ever could

old soul made of stardust and endless night skies, irrevocably sarcastic, avid adventurer (within the pages of a good book)