Hidden in a toolbox, in the rafters of his four-car garage, was an envelope full of pictures taken by a private detective...They were pictures of a scrawny, boyish looking nine year old with a wide mouth and a tangle of brown hair...Her eyes were oblong and deep set, their color hidden from the camera by the slant of the sun. The angles and planes of her face were oddly beautiful just then, in that moment, frozen on Kodak paper. A hint of the woman she would someday become.
Beautiful and alluring things of the world always fascinate us, and there is no way to have them unless we are beautiful.
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Beautiful and alluring things of the world always fascinate us, and there is no way to have them unless we are beautiful.
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