And suddenly I didn't feel beautiful anymore. It was as if he ripped away the small remnant of beauty clinging to my needy soul. I hated him. With all that was in me, I hated him. He stole from me, took the very things that kept me alive. Everything I loved, he stripped from me. Tore it from me, harshly, brutally leaving me with angry, red seething skin. I was a mere shell of who I used to be. Who would've thought that a single bullet from the man I used to love and A wooden box could make me, me again.