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How Being Around Small Children Healed My Face

Warning — graphic images of the Author’s face ahead

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She crawled into my lap, and her hands found my face. The soon two-year-old didn’t seem disgusted by what she saw; moreover, she was curious; she wanted to touch the rough and itching parts that I longed to hide so badly.