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What It Felt Like To Be Beautiful

Part 1: The Perks

J. M. Cools
Sep 3, 2018 · 6 min read

If I’m being honest, I’ve never really felt attractive. If you look up “beautiful women” in a search engine, you’ll most likely be flooded with predominantly lovely, white women with light, straight hair. If you lurk through Reddit like I do, you’ll see the r/goddess subreddit, and most of them are also thin, otherworldly, white women.

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J. M. Cools

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Life lessons as they come and other things. Email/hire me author.jmcools@gmail.com

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