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Bare.

My face is bare, changed only by the sunburn and happy blush of my cheeks.

 

My hair hangs loose in curls, lightened by summer and the sea, as it did when I was a child.

 

My fingernails are short and unpainted, my wrists and neck unadorned, dressed with only a smattering of new freckles.

 

Never have I been more beautiful, bare naked, but for the salt on my skin and the sun in my eyes.

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jos-richter
South African
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Nov 7, 2014
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