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I was born into trauma and trauma has followed me throughout my life. While my mother was pregnant with me she was beaten by my father with a chair. She wore glasses after that incident and I was born paralyzed on one side of the face and later I was told that I may have had a stroke in the uterus. This left me with low self-esteem and very self-conscious of my looks all my life. I was very thin as well and gained nicknames like "Olive Oil", "Bean Pole" and "String Bean".
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