Elizabeth Brundage

Just the word beautiful was seductive – but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing – in the eye of the beholder – but that wasn’t really true anymore.

Just the word beautiful was seductive – but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing – in the eye of the beholder – but that wasn’t really true anymore.

– Elizabeth Brundage –

Somebody Else’s Daughter

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